Holly’s Space

Jessye (the main character in this book) loves living with her nana at the river house, but also really loves living with her weird and wacky mum at whatever her current home happens to be. When Jessye’s mum sweeps back into her life and wants to take her back to her current home with her, Jessye has to make some very difficult decisions and choose whether to stay with her mum or her nana. But the one main problem is that Jessye’s Mum doesn’t like her nana and nor does her nana like her mum, or more she just doesn’t approve of her. 

One of the things that I quite liked about ‘River Song’ is that it was set in
New Zealand and had lots of things to do with Maori culture. I also thought that it was well structured and in a very good order of events which I find very good in any books or stories. At the start of the book there is this saying “I have discovered that you can go along for ages without seeing things as they really are. And then one day their true colours light up as clear as anything, as clear as the sun in the morning. And on the day my destiny gave me the nod. I was sprawled on the sofa in the river house beside nana, listening to her sing.” I think that having this gives a good base for the whole book and also it makes the readers more interested in it by making the readers wonder ‘what does that mean’ and think ‘why is that’ which I thought was really quite good. Another thing was that you get hooked into this book almost straight away, in any books I find that if you get into the story straight away you will enjoy the book more and won’t want to put it down.

I would rate this book about a 9 out of 10, I really enjoyed it and couldn’t really find anything I didn’t exactly like about it. I would recommend ‘River Song’ to almost all ages from about 10 up and both to boys and girls. This was a fantastic book and I can see why many other people will enjoy it. So overall this was an excellent read, it was set in
New Zealand and included many different parts of Maori Culture in it. It was well structured, jumped straight into the actual story, was rather interesting and left you anticipated and anxious about what was going to happen next.

By Holly