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Synopsis:
Dinah’s whole world is upside down, dead things and angry men and cuts all over her head that are beginning to sting….
Seventeen-year-old Dinah needs to leave her home, the weird commune where she grew up. She needs a whole new identity, starting with how she looks, starting with shaving off her hair, her ‘crowning glory’. She has to do it quickly, because she has to go now.
Dinah was going to go alone and hitch a ride down south. Except, she ends up being persuaded to illegally drive a VW campervan for hundreds of miles, accompanied by a grumpy man with one leg. This wasn’t the plan.
But while she’s driving, Dinah will be forced to confront everything that led her here, everything that will finally show her which direction to turn…
Review:
I wasn’t too sure what to expect with Becoming Dinah. TO be fair I didn’t read the blurb but was loving the cover but I’m glad I went in blind.
Because I went in blind I noticed that the chapters were headed with Dinah’s name, so I assumed that it was written from multiple point of views. However, you lean that it defines the past and the present of a main characters life. Dinah, the past and Ishmael the present, where she really finds out who she is.
The overall struggles that our character faces, may come across as what can only be defined as ‘normal’ teenage life, but you have to take into account the emotional heartache these events have for the long term. Which brings to light, how much we play down the young minds of the world and how their upbringing can shape them.
Though this story was delightful and eye opening I felt as though it missed out on the descriptions to build up the setting more. That is if I had to pick something that I wasn’t a fan of.
Over all Becoming Dinah was beautiful and well written.
Rating: 4/5
Publisher: Hachette
ISBN: 9781510105708