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Sam stared at the picture of the boy about to be tipped off the edge of the world: the crushing weight of water about to pummel him. Sam knew that moment exactly, the disbelief that what was about to happen could even be possible. The intake of breath before the flood. Sam has always had things going on in his head that no one else understands, even his mum. And now she's dead, it's worse than ever. With nothing but his skateboard and a few belongings in a garbage bag, Sam goes to live with the strangers his mum cut ties with seven years ago: Aunty Lorraine and his cousins Shane and Minty. Despite the suspicion and hostility emanating from their fibro shack, Sam reverts to his childhood habit of following Minty around and is soon surfing with Minty to cut through the static fuzz in his head. But as the days slowly meld into one another, and ghosts from the past reappear, Sam has to make the ultimate decision ...will he sink or will he swim. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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6/10, now that I look back I enjoyed this one at first however I lost that feeling over time and in the end I felt that it wasn't worth reading and even now I highly doubt that I would do that due to the glaring flaws in this, where do I even begin. It starts immediately with a rather traumatic scene as only a few pages in the mother of the main character Sam dies and he spends the first part of the book grieving for her and I almost didn't realise that this was set in the 1990s other than the date at the start and the slang and culture of the time like surfing and the Nintendo 64. He tries to pass the time by doing what he does best: surfing and it was established from the beginning that he is rather good at it, sometimes he surfs alone and other times with another person but even that I've seen before in other books I've read before this. Eventually he goes off to his aunt's house with his cousins and I'm not sure why his mother cut herself off from Sam's aunt, I don't really know since it wasn't explained but anyways after that the book just dragged its plot and petered out in the end. ( )