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Cool tail about about mythical creatures. It's a slow burn and it's not obvious. It's poetic and I am not sure if it is Adult or YA. It's a nice change from the usual. I plan to read it again.


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Inland Kat Rosenfield Books Reviews

“Inland” by Kat Rosenfield follows Calypso (Callie) Morgan as she unearths the darker side of her psyche after she and her father move from their inland homes to one next to the sea.

This book is an edgy, dark whirlwind, which is both a good and bad thing. Suspense drips across the pages, the mysteries of the Morgan ladies make you crave more backstory, and you watch in part dread and fascination as Callie comes into their footsteps. However, the ambiguity of the closing epilogue relies so heavily on suspense and thrill that it falls flat—I would go so far as to say it is anticlimactic. Yes, it does a wonderful job at making you question if Callie is insane or if she is something altogether different, but there is such a thing as too ambiguous.

On the positive side, Ms. Rosenfield did an outstanding job at plenty of other things. A book of such daring scope could have included stereotypical high school students, but she decided to take time to flesh out the crew that adopts Callie at Ballard High School. Ben is a precious, nerdy gentleman, Jana is the support Callie needs with a personality of her own, and the rest of them are just as colorful. I had a splendid time with the scenes where the friends were together, even if Callie was brooding. (Better yet, they were not the only characters who had a life of their own, but all the characters did.)

My main fascination with this book had to do more with the mechanics of writing than the story overall. Ms. Rosenfield mastered the present tense, first person point of view. There was no area where she faltered in that respect. Her lush descriptions were on a whole different level as well.

This is one such quote that not only describes Callie’s father, but characterizes him as well “When I was younger, before this visit became just another routine, my father would sit stone-faced in the room’s only chair, stiff and sleepless, his fingers laced together so tightly that the circulation stopped. With the white cold hands beneath his chin, below the still and staring face, he was less a presence than an object. A marble sculpture, keeping watch. Portrait of a Desperate Father,” (pg 56).

I also found I enjoyed the snippets between Callie’s narration. They sounded like how people would narrate pieces of their life, and it also added to Callie’s credibility as a teenager.

To conclude, this book has an underlining feel of the young adult genre, but the themes it deals with and the style of writing make it a book that would appeal more to adults. It has its flaws more towards the end, but I believe there is enough to glean from that make it a worthwhile read, so I still do recommend it.
I could not put this book down. Really different from anything I've read.
BRIEF SYNOPSIS

Inland is about Callie who at the age of nine watches her mother drown. Or supposedly drowned. Or commit suicide. I'm not really sure (and I have to give blame to the Author Kat Rosenfield on that account). Rush forward nine years later and Callie is a pale, doughy, asthmatic wheezing of a thing. Her father thought that it would be best if his daughter would forget that tragic event that took place nine years ago, so he moves them inland. Hence the name of the book. Unfortunately that doesn't last very long. Dwindling saving account and the with the ongoing medical bills that have acquired over the years from taking care of his sick daughter, he takes a job offer that he can't really refuse. So off they move to the Florida coast, where miraculously, Callie gets better. No more taking pills, need of an inhaler, no more trips to the hospital.

REVIEW

And so this is where I thought the story would began about mermaids. But no, it was a boring and underwhelming mess of a story. So slow paced that it took me four days to read and I'm a fast reader.
Don't get me wrong, Kat Rosenfield does a wonderful job with her writing. The description and prose were beautifully written but I wonder what the point is if the story was so bland and vanilla. That characters (major and minor) were a disappointment. I didn't care about any and I do mean any of the characters of this book. They were just names written on a piece of paper. With the exception of Bee. The six year old chubby ball of energy. Although she is briefly and I mean briefly mention in the book I liked her the best and wanted to know more about her than of Callie and her tragic family history.

Yet I don't really know anything about Callie or her family history except that all the woman get a calling and you can't control it. Unless you want to live the rest of your life with an oxygen tank. I'm still wondering where the mermaids are in this story. You get a glimpse but never the full story or the meaning behind them. To be quite honest I don't think they were mermaids in the traditional sense, more like creatures from the black lagoon. Nothing beautiful or memorable about them.

The other problem I had with this story were the friendships and relationships that Callie sort of developed as the story moved along. For one I just never believe her and Ben girlfriend/boyfriend dynamic. It seemed forced. Just something that the author wanted to put in there just for the sake of being put in there. It seems that all YA books have to have some sort of romances even if it doesn't need to be in the book in the first place. The same can be said about the other friendships. There was nothing real to them or about them.

The last problem I have and it's a big one. The ending. It left me confused and frustrated. I don't know who is worst. Rainbow Morell with her Eleanor and Park ending (a postcard) or Kat Rosenfield (with her ending that wasn't really an ending). I'm starting to wonder if this whole entire book was a metaphor for mental illness instead. Usually if I don't understand a book the first time around I will read it again but I think I suffered enough. I've learned my lesson. Never buy a book best on the beautiful cover and the carefully but brilliantly written synopsis. This is one of the book that definitely will go to goodwill. Hopefully someone will like it. It just wasn't for me or to my liking.
Cool tail about about mythical creatures. It's a slow burn and it's not obvious. It's poetic and I am not sure if it is Adult or YA. It's a nice change from the usual. I plan to read it again.