Science Fiction
Yesterday again is the sort of middle-grade sci-fi I wish got talked about more. It starts off feeling like a grudge, a kid convinced he knows exactly who the villain is, and then it keeps quietly pulling the floor away.
There’s comic-book energy to it, but it isn’t just noise and capes. The time-travel mess is the point, really. If you like stories that begin with a very certain narrator and end up much stranger than they first look, this one is worth a look.
There’s comic-book energy to it, but it isn’t just noise and capes. The time-travel mess is the point, really. If you like stories that begin with a very certain narrator and end up much stranger than they first look, this one is worth a look.
The bit that interests me most here is the kid being so sure of the story he’s in, then finding out the story is less obedient than he hoped. That’s a good middle-grade trick when it works. Time travel can so easily become a pile of mechanics, but the better version is usually emotional. Also, “Blue Freak” is exactly the sort of nickname that would make a twelve-year-old see red.