Genre:
Young Adult
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?”
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.
Be sure to
check out Ms. Kramer’s updated book lists on her Amazon author page.
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.)
Added
for Reprise Review: Maisy May
2 was a nominee in the Young Adult category for B&P 2014 Readers'
Choice Awards. Original review ran August 16, 2013
Format/Typo
Issues:
No
significant issues
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate
word count: 25-30,000 words
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