Helpful Score: 3
I tend to enjoy the dystopian genre in young adult books but the description of Awakening Foster Kelly intrigued me, so I took a leap. I'm very glad I did as Foster is someone you won't immediately forget.
She's invisible, or tries to be. She is an outsider, clumsy, awkward, heck we've probably all met someone like Foster or were when we were a teenager. She sings like an angel, she's brilliant and she has almost no friends. But she puts on a great front because she doesn't want her parents to worry about her.
Then she's paired with Dominic on a project at school and he doesn't want to work with her. They work through things and she makes two new friends, a set of twins. She begins to open up and realize that she can be normal, but then the unexpected happens.
Awakening Foster Kelly is a gem of a book. Personally, I'd like to see it broken up into two novels or have some editing done as it is over seven hundred pages. But, it's definitely worth the read. The characters are fully developed and Olsen manages to throw in quite a few unexpected plot twists that really made the novel just pop. If you want to read an exceptional young adult book, then I'd recommend picking up Awakening Foster Kelly. I look forward to what Olsen writes next. She just has a knack for creating characters and scenes that just bring the story to life.
She's invisible, or tries to be. She is an outsider, clumsy, awkward, heck we've probably all met someone like Foster or were when we were a teenager. She sings like an angel, she's brilliant and she has almost no friends. But she puts on a great front because she doesn't want her parents to worry about her.
Then she's paired with Dominic on a project at school and he doesn't want to work with her. They work through things and she makes two new friends, a set of twins. She begins to open up and realize that she can be normal, but then the unexpected happens.
Awakening Foster Kelly is a gem of a book. Personally, I'd like to see it broken up into two novels or have some editing done as it is over seven hundred pages. But, it's definitely worth the read. The characters are fully developed and Olsen manages to throw in quite a few unexpected plot twists that really made the novel just pop. If you want to read an exceptional young adult book, then I'd recommend picking up Awakening Foster Kelly. I look forward to what Olsen writes next. She just has a knack for creating characters and scenes that just bring the story to life.
