![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
What’s New Harper Drew? by Kathy Weeks
Jun. 15th, 2025 10:58 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
I’m Harper Drew and my life is completely beyond normal!
Current evidence:
1. My brother Troy … has a skateboarding vlog. But only owns half a skateboard.
2. My uncle Paul … has a diamond toe ring and is apparently a Hollywood movie producer. But no one has ever seen a film he’s made.
3. My dad … has just crashed the school minibus in front of a police officer.
And that’s before I even got started on my mum, my baby brother (the Prune) or the llamas on our disastrous family holiday …
Does anyone else have this much drama in their life?
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Kathy Weeks’s debut humorous novel for readers aged 9+ (the first in a trilogy) has a good narrative voice and builds its funny scenes well while Aleksei Bitskoff’s energetic illustrations bring out the absurdity of Harper’s family and the situations that she finds herself in. My biggest criticism is that the family’s attitude to arriving on time for things triggered my anxiety and I would have liked a bit more normality to make it feel grounded.
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
Current evidence:
1. My brother Troy … has a skateboarding vlog. But only owns half a skateboard.
2. My uncle Paul … has a diamond toe ring and is apparently a Hollywood movie producer. But no one has ever seen a film he’s made.
3. My dad … has just crashed the school minibus in front of a police officer.
And that’s before I even got started on my mum, my baby brother (the Prune) or the llamas on our disastrous family holiday …
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Kathy Weeks’s debut humorous novel for readers aged 9+ (the first in a trilogy) has a good narrative voice and builds its funny scenes well while Aleksei Bitskoff’s energetic illustrations bring out the absurdity of Harper’s family and the situations that she finds herself in. My biggest criticism is that the family’s attitude to arriving on time for things triggered my anxiety and I would have liked a bit more normality to make it feel grounded.
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
