What have I read since The Start of Me and You?
Verdict: WOW FEELINGS, this worldbuilding does a lot with a little and I had such a hard time finishing this but at the same time I found it so impossible to put down — such terrible things are done to Nathan but I needed to see it through until the end. I really like Nathan as a narrator and main character; some of the other characters call him simple, and he's functionally illiterate, but that doesn't mean he's not still very smart. I don't usually gush over first-person pov, but in this case I don't think it could have been written any other way, and I liked Nathan's thought patterns.
Half Wild, by Sally Green
Verdict: God, ducklings, I just really like Nathan. I love him. I love Gabriel. I like Nathan's complicated relationship with his father and I may have screamed a little over Gabriel's passionate but undemanding devotion? I would like them to actually have a little bit of peace in their lives. Do not read this book unless you can handle a ton of violence and an interminable wait for the sequel, because the last chapter comes like the freaking asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is to say: fast and catastrophic.
