So, the Young Peoples' Literature Award winner was announced: Goblin Secrets. Meh.
I had decided to give up on those books anyway, I didn’t like Goblin Secrets, Never Fall down was depressing, and Bomb didn't keep me hooked. Plus, of the two that I haven’t read, Endangered is about endangered bonobos in the Congo, and Out of Reach is about a girl whose brother has a drug addiction.
I always say there is a time and place for every book I read, and now is just not the time for these books. Anyway, here’s the review for Bomb, the last YPLA book that I’ll review:
Bomb: The Race to Build-and Steal-the World's Most Dangerous Weapon makes you think this is going to be a sort of spy thriller, however it’s actually a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, often called the father of the atomic bomb.
Bomb is well written and very interesting, but it just didn’t grab me. There wasn’t technically anything wrong with it, but it didn’t latch onto me and make me want to superglue it to my face. I would like to come back to it eventually, but I think it would take me a (long) while to read it. This conflicts with every single review on amazon that I’ve read, all the reviews are 5 stars, but for now, this is my verdict on it.
I think I just need to accept that the person that chose the YPLA finalists has very different taste in books to me.
Feisty chick-o-meter: No female characters as far as I have read, but I can't really rate it seeing as it's a biography.
Age rating: 10 and up
Rating: 5/10
Stand alone or series: Stand alone
Book or audiobook: Book
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