by Cath Crowley
So one of the reasons I started this blog was I wanted to blather on about stuff, the other was I wanted to share my opinion on some books.Rating: 9/10
 Let me make it in time. Let me meet Shadow. The guy who paints in the dark. Paints birds trapped on brick walls and people lost in ghost forests. Paints guys with grass growing from their hearts and girls with buzzing lawn mowers. It’s the end of Year 12. Lucy’s looking for Shadow, the graffiti artist everyone talks about. His work is all over the city, but he is nowhere. Ed, the last guy she wants to see at the moment, says he knows where to find him. He takes Lucy on an all-night search to places where Shadow’s thoughts about heartbreak and escape echo around the city walls. But the one thing Lucy can’t see is the one thing that’s right before her eyes. |
Daisy’s boyfriend Dylan has been saying that he knows Shadow and Poet, so Daisy gets him to help.
Ed and Leo, Dylan’s friends agree to help him because they know he’s in trouble. Jazz likes this because she is interested in Leo. Lucy doesn’t like this because her first and only date ever was with Ed; Ed doesn’t like it because the date ended with him getting punched in the face.
I really liked this novel it was interesting to see the way they all interacted and the poems interspersed were good and added to the way Leo and Jazz interacted and it was interesting. The point of view switches from Lucy to Ed and often repeats the same thing from the other person’s view.
It is well written and the imagery and dialogue is good, the story is wonderful and sweet. I took a mark off because of Lucy’s adamance that she is in love with Shadow, based purely on the artwork, when it is clear that Shadow could be an old man, a woman or someone else entirely, but it is easy enough to forget that as you read.
Currently listening: The Great Escape – Boys Like Girls
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