There's a compelling charm and romanticism to a boy with a fishbowl containing his uncle's ashes traveling on a boat named after that boy and with a girl who holds a divine book she's making who's escaping an abusive home situation. Now that's a story. What immediately grabbed me about the writing was its poeticism. The language on display is beautiful, and I love how you've structured with paragraphs and your artistic usage of indentation and spacing. There are some great lines throughout the manuscript as well, and you did a fine job of capturing and conveying Kenny’s emotionality.
J. Flowers-Olnowich
I really think this book is utterly beautiful, and I loved the amount of detail and care you put into it! I really love how these plot points were just so wildly different from each other and yet you still somehow made them work. Like they really should have been two totally different stories.
Maddy D.
As for the story itself, the only complaint that I had was that it was a little slow out of the gate. However, once the story started to pick up, it really started to pick up! All in all, the entire book was beautifully written and illustrated. This is a book that I would absolutely want to go back and read more than once. We get such a deep exploration into Kenneth’s mind that I almost feel like I know him now, and I would love to go back and visit him again later. I think your readers are going to absolutely love it.
Nikki B.
Ok this is one of the most beautiful manuscripts I've had the pleasure to read.
Alisha M.