Status Updates From Unspoken (The Lynburn Legac...

Egads. That end…uh. I’m not going to say it ruined the book totally, but I don’t like it.

I like that Jared is bitching about using public transport. Very realistic, for an American teenager. 😄

Oh, I stand corrected on the names, Dad’s just being silly and calling them by names that aren’t their own. Still, my point stands (though slightly less of it).

This is a really good book in a lot of ways, but one of the things I really appreciate is how Rees Brennan portrays a racially blended family. They’re so totally normal, and much like many multiracial families that I’ve met. The kids have English names and Japanese names and use both. They all have different physical characteristics. Not all authors manage to do that without othering them.

So, she has what she THINKS is an imaginary friend, and hasn’t bothered to confirm whether he’s real or not? That’s odd, in this day and age. It’s easy enough to figure that out, unless something is blocking you from exchanging contact info. Even back in the early 00s when this was written, they could have exchanged email - or asked to, and got “what’s email?” in response, which would also help.

Starting off with a Christina Rossetti quote, and not a particularly well-known one. That’s a very good sign.