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Selkie Girl (2008)

by Laurie Brooks(Favorite Author)

3.46 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0375851704 (ISBN13: 9780375851704)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Knopf Books for Young Readers

review 1: I really enjoyed this book, but the cover was a tad misleading. Based on the cover alone a reader would expect a rather fun, fluffy tale about selkies. This was not a fluffy story and deals with rape, being held involuntarily, death, and bullying. It's not light hearted reading, but I really loved the overall effect of the story. If you get triggered easily you may not want to read this. But I really enjoyed Ms. Brooks' take on the Scottish mythology of selkies. It's unlike any other selkie story I've read and I look forward to reading more of Ms. Brooks' work.
review 2: I thought this book was a really good exploration of growing up outside two worlds and not really fitting in to both as well as an exploration of the selkie myths. It was a continuation ... moreof one of the major selkie myths -- the one where the mother's skin is stolen, and she marries the farmer who stole her skin, and has a child or two, and then her skin is found and she goes back to the ocean, sometimes with her kids, sometimes without. This book is told from the daughter's point of view, and it starts before the skin is found. It is all at once a finding-yourself story, a story about family, and a love story. And it reminds me of The Folk Keeper, one of my favorite books ever. less

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