Infinite SkyInfinite Sky #1
Author: C.J. Flood
Reading Level: Young Adult
Genre: Contemporary
Released: May 20th 2014
Review Source: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
A truly beautiful book about the summer that changed one girl's life, as her mum leaves home, travellers set up camp in the family's field, her older brother goes off the rails, and she falls in love for the very first time. Opening with a funeral, Iris is mourning the boy in the casket - but who is it? Sam, her tearaway brother, or Trick, her tentative boyfriend? Over one long hot summer, we find out just how their three lives were turned upside-down.
Right from the start, Infinite Sky captures your attention. With such revelation of a death, it makes you wonder and it demands for you to discover the identity of the dead person. Infinity Sky was devastating yet it another proof that discrimination and racism is dangerous and it doesn’t lead to anything good.
As we begin the story, we come to learn Iris lives in a devastating life. Her mother left her and her family, her father loves to drink and her brother is muted with hatred. On top of this, after the abandonment of her mother, her friend Mitty is no longer a friend but a person that pity her. Her life takes a turn when a new family of Irish travelers takes residency on the Dancy’s land. No one likes them. No one wants them there because they believe they are nothing but thieves. When Iris meets one of the members of the family, she takes interest and begins following their way of living. She becomes fond with Trick and their friendship becomes intense. Until her secret meetings are revealed.
I knew right from the start this book will be devastating. Yet Flood provides us a story of why discrimination and hatred is something that should be eliminated. It leads nothing but tragedies, just like in this book. Heartbreaking and striking, Infinite Sky is a good coming of age read.
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Whoa, I have to read this. It sounds interesting, opening with the ending. We will see her sadness but not know who she is mourning all the way till the ending, where the beginning will link with it. It sounds like the type of book where you read the beginning again and go oh. I really don't like discrimination, and this sounds like the perfect book for me. Definitely added to my TBR list!
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I haven't heard of this book before, but it sounds really interesting. It seems like a painfully beautiful story and I really wonder who Iris is mourning. Great review!
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