![]() ![]() So, overall, I enjoyed this book, but wanted more action, and more adventure. And although thoughts are so interesting, particularly the thoughts of the amazing Mina, you cannot fill a whole book with just thoughts and feelings. I simply felt that there was not enough action - and yet, there was so much that Almond could have done to provoke the adventure in the book, however he dampened it, loosened it, prolonged it with just thoughts. My Name is Mina not quite a children’s book and not quite a young adult novel is a highly precocious nine-year-old English girl who has a grievance against society and against the school. We first met Mina in 1998 in Skellig, David Almond’s Carnegie Medal children’s book. ![]() However, the plot lacked adventure - there was no real plot. In this stunning book, David Almond revisits Mina before she has met Michael, before she has met Skellig. This review was originally written in 2015. One which made the reader's ears prick up to listen to her words. She has a unique voice, one of character and originality. She wasn't a girly, giggly teenager that is in all the books on the shelves at the moment. I loved the way Mina wrote, her voice engaged me, I loved the metaphors she used and she was so different to other characters I'd read about. Mina became so real to me, her presence next to me. I'll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or a beast does, just like life does. ![]() Then what shall I write I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. Almond shows us Mina in a sensitive, perceptive way that I loved. I open the book and write the very first words: My name is Mina and I love the night. ![]()
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