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Break: 01/22/24
Break by Kayla Miller (2024) (January 2024) is set during spring break. Olive wants to spend a week with all her school friends but she and Simon are sent to the city to be with their father. Olive has ambivalent feelings towards her father. He and her mother divorced some time ago, before Click (2019). Simon who is probably too young to remember life with both parents is super excited to visit and do everything together. To help Olive stay in contact with her friends, her father gives her a new smartphone. Of course mere pages after that she drops her phone. I fully expected Break to be a pun about spring break and a broken phone. Fortunately the book doesn't go that direction. Instead the break pun is more about taking breaks from social media. My one, on-going complaint is how most of Olive's problems stem from her inability or unwillingness to communicate with her family. Sure, being the oldest does complicate things because the youngest children always seem more talkative. Simon (aka Goober) falls into that category. But now six books into this series, I'd like to see a little progress in being more assertive. Four stars Comments (0) |