Book Review

[kenjari]

Polaris
by Michael Northrop

This enjoyable middle-grade/YA horror thriller was quite satisfying. It is set in 1830, on a ship visiting South America for a scientific expedition. Things go horribly wrong, leading to the ships' boys, none older than 12, getting abandoned to sail the ship to port by themselves. Or not quite by themselves.
The weird thing about reading middle-grade/YA fiction when in one's mid-forties is being able to see how effective the writing is while not being intensely affected by it. And the writing here is indeed very effective. If I were in the target audience, I would have been very scared and entirely glued to this book, and loving every minute of it.
(Full disclosure: the author is my brother-in-law.)

Comments

[sovay]

And the writing here is indeed very effective. If I were in the target audience, I would have been very scared and entirely glued to this book, and loving every minute of it.

I'm glad your brother-in-law writes books that you enjoy!