Reviewed by: BigAl
Genre: YA
Approximate word count: 25-30,000 words
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Author:
“Naomi is
an Australian author living on Macleay Island, in south-east Queensland. She
works in IT, and loves to play with the English language in her spare time.
She's usually found sporting brightly-coloured hair and wielding a mug of
coffee as though it's her last bastion against a comatose state.”
Kramer also
has two other series (all novellas), the Dead(ish)
series and her Bad F*ck series of
short story collections about less than perfect experiences with … um, I’ll let
you figure that out yourself.
Description:
“Maisy is
pregnant, and moving to Sydney. How will the country kid cope with the big city
- and how will the big city cope with Maisy?”
Appraisal:
I’ve read
and liked all of Naomi Kramer’s books, but Maisy
May, her first book and the first in this series, stood above all the
others as my favorite. In fact, it ranks among my favorite reads of the last
several years. After waiting more than three years for the second volume of the
planned trilogy, it has finally arrived.
Much of
what I liked about this book are the same things I loved in the first book.
Maisy combines irreverence and (at least outwardly) a devil-may-care attitude
with smarts and maturity beyond her years. In this chapter of her life Maisy
and her Mom move into the bottom floor apartment of a house owned by a recently
divorced Pastor who is the father of Mark, Maisy’s gay friend and the father of
her baby. Describing this sounds like a soap opera or a bad reality show, but
it doesn’t read anything like either as Maisy struggles with pregnancy,
motherhood, school and, most important, how to make the relationship between
her, Mark, and their new baby, Emily, work.
This was an
excellent continuation of Maisy’s story. Please don’t make me wait another
three years for the conclusion.
FYI:
The author
is from Australia and uses slang and spelling conventions from her native
country.
This is the
second book in the series and I highly recommend reading Maisy May, the first in the series, because it is so good. However,
the brief introduction sets the stage well for a reader who wants to read this
as a standalone. (It also refreshes memories for those of us who read the first
book a long time ago.)
Format/Typo Issues:
No
significant issues
Rating: ***** Five stars
1 comment:
Maisy is pregnant? Oh no, how did that happen? ;)
Good to see Naomi is still writing. I was wondering what'd happened to her.
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