Goblin Market
Title: Goblin Market Author: Diane Zahler Publisher: Holiday House Rating: 3 Stars I received a free ebook download of this book from Net Galley. Premise: A novelization of Christina Rossetti's poem of the same name. There are two sisters, one eats goblin fruit, the other has to save her. Things I Loved: 1. NEURODIVERGENCE. The main character, Lizzie, is a neurodivergent synesthete. While that's great on its own, it's the other characters' treatment of her that really makes this awesome. Sure, a few of the village kids make fun of her for being different, but children are horrible beasts, so that's to be expected. Everyone else, though, accepts Lizzie as she is. Basically like "the older sister doesn't like cabbage, and the younger sister doesn't like hugs or loud noises." That kind of normalization. It's just who she is, and that's awesome. 2. The interpretation of the source material. Christina Rossetti's poem is awesom...