Title- Pan's Whisper.
Author- Sue Lawson.
Publish date- 2011.
Publisher- Walker Books.
Review...
Synopsis:
Pan Harper isn't exactly loving her current life. She's been sent to live with a foster family who already care for two other foster children and she hates the way they act as if she's a permanent fixture now. As if she's never going to leave.
But Pan is damaged. She hates the fact that her older sister stopped protecting her, allowed this to happen and everything seems too hard to bother, because it's almost certain that, if she doesn't make things change, they won't.
Then, when she meets Hunger, she starts to see things differently. And Hunter is testing Pan's most inportant rule to the breaking point... she knows never trust anybody. But maybe she can trust him.
But Pan is damaged. She hates the fact that her older sister stopped protecting her, allowed this to happen and everything seems too hard to bother, because it's almost certain that, if she doesn't make things change, they won't.
Then, when she meets Hunger, she starts to see things differently. And Hunter is testing Pan's most inportant rule to the breaking point... she knows never trust anybody. But maybe she can trust him.
Thank you to Walker books for this review copy!
What I thought:
I really love the premise of Pan's Whisper; the story, told from both Pan's point of view and her sister's, of a young girl who is taken from her family, seperated from the only person who has ever really protected her- her sister. Throughout the story the reader learns what happened that made Pan be put into a foster home, and there are snippets of information relating to her previous life.
Pan finds it hard to forgive and she hates her sister for letting what's happened happen, but she also hates most people, especially her new foster parents and the children they look after, because they live a loving life. They care for the children they look after. And Pan never got that.
It was a really interesting, very sad and moving book- I can't say that I connected with Pan as much as I did with her story; she was missing aspects that I look for in characters- the other characters were all fairly medicor and lacking, I felt- they seemed to be all partially there, but not fully finished off.
Overall I would say the idea struck me more then the book- it gives a lasting memory, but not so much for the actual story, but the story behind the story.
Romi.x
I really love the premise of Pan's Whisper; the story, told from both Pan's point of view and her sister's, of a young girl who is taken from her family, seperated from the only person who has ever really protected her- her sister. Throughout the story the reader learns what happened that made Pan be put into a foster home, and there are snippets of information relating to her previous life.
Pan finds it hard to forgive and she hates her sister for letting what's happened happen, but she also hates most people, especially her new foster parents and the children they look after, because they live a loving life. They care for the children they look after. And Pan never got that.
It was a really interesting, very sad and moving book- I can't say that I connected with Pan as much as I did with her story; she was missing aspects that I look for in characters- the other characters were all fairly medicor and lacking, I felt- they seemed to be all partially there, but not fully finished off.
Overall I would say the idea struck me more then the book- it gives a lasting memory, but not so much for the actual story, but the story behind the story.
Romi.x
that's a fair review.
ReplyDeletei really liked some aspects and deffinetly wanted to finish the book, but some bits were a bit 'mid-day movie', a bit over the top or 2D.
You should deffinetly try reading Finding Darcy and After by Sue Lawson, they're amazing. the characters are so much stronger.