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Imagina Que Ya No Estoy (2014)

by Meg Rosoff(Favorite Author)

3.49 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Siruela

review 1: This precocious 12 year-old narrator prides herself on her emotional intelligence -- or she sees it, "solving puzzles", reading faces, picking up on signs. When her father's best friend disappears on the eve of their visit from London, Mila and her father Gil (yes, she is one of those children who call their parents by their first names) take a strange trip across upstate New York to track him down. There are mysteries to reveal and puzzles to solve, but not nearly so many as it would seem to Mila (and perhaps the reader) at the beginning of their quest. Biggest lesson: Adults are fallible, sometimes liars, sometimes big screw-ups that cannot be counted on. For all that, this is a forgiving novel about the foibles and frailties of human nature. There are lots of plea... moresing details, and I enjoyed Rosoff's confident writing style. Like me, Rosoff is an American who has lived for a long time in the UK -- and that really shows in the way she "observes" America.
review 2: It's come to my attention that this book has gotten a lot of critical praise and I can certainly understand why - it's written to impress critics. At the very least, it feels that way. It's a short book that I didn't get into at the beginning but thought, "Hey, I'll stick it out. At least it's a short book..." that ended up feeling like a long, unnecessarily drawn out book. While there are some tactics used that aren't employed in most other YA fiction novels (the lack of using any quotes while the characters are speaking to one another seems novel but comes off pretentious) that don't help the cause. The story is also remarkably depressing for one centered around a 12 (13?) year old girl, written to be far too wise for her years. The interaction she has with adults is unbelievable at best, with the only bright spot being the brief encounter she has with a kid closer to her own age, where the communication between the two of them finally feels genuine. Eck. less

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