Sarah Auchterlonie

My son and his friends are avid readers, but every one of them hated this book. There are no quotation marks. All dialog is in italics. My son could not discern between narrator thought and character speaking. In addition, the first person narrator switches each chapter with no indication of who is narrating. The time signals are confusing in this book. It’s hard to tell the difference between a narrator recounting a past event and describing current action. The book loses the story because the reader must work so hard to understand what’s going on, when it happened, and who is recounting the action and emotion. This book should be re-edited for young readers.