The World Inside my Plastic Mirror
Christopher Francis
My first reaction is that over 300 pages is rather long and intimidating even if Harry Potters ran to 700. No .mobi, or .pdf file behaves properly in Kindle on my Android Tablet. A .pdf reader does work. Nook does read e-Pub format.
Understanding women is an eternal mystery to males and pre-adolescent girls are a particular annoyance. Of course their male counterparts are acne-ridden, smelly, giggly, insecure.
I associate Aubrey with names for boys. Can't believe she was desperate enough to fit in with those girls to climb into the cramped trunk of a car. Car tires have sidewalls, the fenders define the sides of a trunk. Page 32
heard not head pg 62
past not passed pg 96
The author sets his story in Burlington Ontario. Macys is in Burlington Mall. Smartphones are one thing and children have been known to run up massive charges on social media and gaming sites. Thirteen-year-olds with credit cards seems a recipe for disaster. Acquaintances gave their daughter a credit card for emergencies when she went off to university and she put them massively in credit card debt in short order. I didn't buy my own clothes or have money that was mine to spend until I went off to university.
Thirteen-yr-olds using make-up? Bad enough my fellow worker seemed to bathe in a 45 gallon drums of aqua velva. Do schools have scent-free policies?
And worlds collide in Aubrey's locker. Truent is from another planet but he's human and speaks English. Otherwise his thought processes and mental abilities are completely different. He wills doors to unlock. But the bigger issue is what can Aubrey do with a boy or boys. She can't take them home to her parents, and how to explain matters to the wider world or civil authorities.
The story ends abruptly leaving the fate of Truent and his buddies unresolved.
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