![]() ![]() ![]() There does feel like there should be a sequel due to the way the book ends. I do want to read the full novel now, as it might have details that are missed (even though the text is plentiful in the graphic novel). ![]() The ending was clipped and predictable for me, (not really a spoiler: but “Prince Charming” is a toad and Turtle will stay with her family in Key West), but I think kids will enjoy. While I enjoyed the book, there was a few parts that did not seem to flow as nicely as they could have. Yet, Turtle learns how to be a kid, that not all kids are bad (even if they are a bunch of boy cousins and their friends who call themselves The Diaper Gang) and what family is all about after some crazy events blow through her life (literally: Turtle and her new friends are trapped in the middle of a hurricane). Turtle has been forced to be an adult before her time as her mom has her head in the clouds most of the time (dreams of a home for the two of them, maybe becoming a movie star, her salesman boyfriend is Prince Charming and someday will be providing for them) and Turtle knows that kids are not “sweet as necco wafers” (mostly since several boys hurt her cat Smokey by burning its tail). The town her mother and aunt grew up in still has cousins, old friends, and Turtles not-so-dead grandmother still there. We follow a spunky girl named Turtle as she comes of age in the late 1930’s when sent to live with family she has never met in Key West. Turtle in Paradise: The Graphic Novel is based on Jennifer L. ![]()
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