My favorite being Balder, the talking garden gnome. Sedgwick - Midwinterblood I will put up with language, sex, violence, anything, as long as it is integral to the story, it’s development or morality – in this case it seems to have been the product of perhaps an attempt at shock value, or maybe pseudo-realism, and ultimately comes off as cheap writing. I once spent New Year’s Eve in a wetsuit.

A particularly wicked smoke session ends badly, with Cameron hallucinating “fire giants” hell-bent on infernal destruction.īray just kept finding new ways to keep dragging the book on and on and on forever. If you want a dark window into our culture – with little literary or redemptive value, you might like this book – otherwise, don’t waste your time or money. Apr 10, Barry rated it it was amazing Shelves: X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe. I very much enjoyed the snarky dialogue but could have lived without the angst-y teenage BS.

However, since I really liked the dialogue and the writing style, I will look for other books by Bray. I’m sixteen now, so you can imagine that’s left me with quite a few days of major suckage. The first thing oibba notice is her writing style. Dulcie can see into the future and says one teen will get killed when he joins the army and steps on a land mine.

She reveals throughout the book her own hypocrisy That the X that marks the spot Cameron’s mission is with him the entire time.Īnd Cam has sex. From the author of the Gemma Doyle trilogy and The Diviners series, this groundbreaking New York Times bestseller and winner of the Michael L. It helps middle and high school students understand Libba Bray’s literary masterpiece. Use our free chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis of Going Bovine. This novel turns a teen’s fatal condition into a hilarious and hallucinatory quest.

Going Bovine by Libba Bray