Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Saving Francesca
by Melina Marchetta Very slow read. Quite mundane.
Do not recommend
Living in Austrailia, Frankie’s mom is battling depression. Mom, who Frankie calls Mia, used to be vocal and was a professor at the university. Now she just stays in bed most of the day. Dad, Robert, is trying to hold the family together. Brother, Luca (Frankie picked that name) seems not to notice as much. Frankie is attending a predominately boys school that recently allowed girls and is trying to adjust. Fellow student Will is handsome but full of himself and makes Frankie nervous. Thomas McKee is obnoxious and rude. Frankie doesn’t quite fit in with most of the girls who tell her she takes things too personally. By the end of the story, Frankie is accepted by the other girls, the girls are accepted by the boys, and Frankie discovers her mum’s depression was caused by a miscarriage.
*Boring book, seems the same each day.

Review by Ms. Wilson
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1 comment:

daydreams and teacups said...

I am very sorry and don't mean to be at all rude, but I just felt that I had to tell you how much I disagreed with your review on this book. Saving Francesca is a wonderful book, it is a book that deals with real life issues and feelings. It looks at and quite truthfully portrays (in my opinion) the lives of teenagers, or young adults, getting ready to step into the world. Showing the sorts of things that they think about. Another thing I found that the book did well was give a sense of place. Maybe it is because (and this is what I concluded) you do not live in Sydney, or indeed Australia, as I have, but the sense of place that Melina Marchetta gives is spot on. To read about these real sounding people, battling with real life issues, in a place so familiar was very much a relief to me, and so I found this book a wonderful and interesting read. So different to the normal over-dramatized works that are so common.

March 10, 2010 at 9:33 PM

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