#11 Riverland by Fran Wilde
Mar. 25th, 2019 11:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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This is a YA / middle grade book that deals with violence in the home and uses a portal fantasy framework for the sisters to deal with what happens at home. A portal to Riverland appears under Eleanor’s bed and both girls tumble into a river basin area where so many things are made up of trash that has come through from our world. Turns out there is a compact between Riverland and sister’s family that goes back generations, but no one knows about it now. Now Eleanor must try and keep up a facade of peace at home and solve the problems of Riverland and still do well at school. This was a bit of a hard read because the anger isn’t glossed over that the girls go thought and there is no perfect solution the problems, but it certainly makes for a better book because of it.
Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss
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This is a YA / middle grade book that deals with violence in the home and uses a portal fantasy framework for the sisters to deal with what happens at home. A portal to Riverland appears under Eleanor’s bed and both girls tumble into a river basin area where so many things are made up of trash that has come through from our world. Turns out there is a compact between Riverland and sister’s family that goes back generations, but no one knows about it now. Now Eleanor must try and keep up a facade of peace at home and solve the problems of Riverland and still do well at school. This was a bit of a hard read because the anger isn’t glossed over that the girls go thought and there is no perfect solution the problems, but it certainly makes for a better book because of it.
Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss
