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I’ll probably give it a miss.When her parents unexpectedly divorce, Mim Malone is dragged from her beloved home in Ohio to the 'wastelands' of Mississippi, where she lives in a haze of medication with her dad and new (almost certainly evil) stepmom.īut when Mim learns her real mother is ill back home, she escapes her new life and embarks on a rescue mission aboard a Greyhound bus, meeting an assortment of quirky characters along the way. I’ve heard good things about Kids of Appetite but I’m extremely wary of reading more from David Arnold now.

I’ll just leave that there.Įssentially, this book is a product of the John Green era of YA literature and it has not aged well. There’s also a painfully boring insta-love plot between the main character and a guy who was so generic I’ve already forgotten his name.

This is played off as a triumphant moment of self-empowerment because relying on medication to stay sane is weak and our heroine is strong, or some such bullshit.

At the end of the book, Mim throws away her meds for mental illness, deciding she doesn’t need them anymore.

Mim also spends a great deal of the book body-shaming people and mentioning physical traits she finds ugly at seemingly random moments.

Mim is a classic “not like other girls” girl, and takes care to remind the reader just how “not like other girls” she is at every opportunity.

The main character, Mim, takes her friend who has Down syndrome to the vet when he’s ill because the doctor’s surgery was conveniently closed.

I had LOTS of issues with the content of this one, including but not limited to: Unfortunately, the plot is all over the place. Book review: Mosquitoland by David ArnoldĪrnold is a genuinely decent writer and if I was just reviewing this book for the quality of the prose, I’d probably give Mosquitoland 3 or 4 stars.