So, overall, I enjoyed this book, but wanted more action, and more adventure. And although thoughts are so interesting, particularly the thoughts of the amazing Mina, you cannot fill a whole book with just thoughts and feelings. I simply felt that there was not enough action - and yet, there was so much that Almond could have done to provoke the adventure in the book, however he dampened it, loosened it, prolonged it with just thoughts. However, the plot lacked adventure - there was no real plot. One which made the reader's ears prick up to listen to her words. She has a unique voice, one of character and originality.

She wasn't a girly, giggly teenager that is in all the books on the shelves at the moment. I loved the way Mina wrote, her voice engaged me, I loved the metaphors she used and she was so different to other characters I'd read about. Mina became so real to me, her presence next to me. Award-winning author David Almond reintroduces readers to the perceptive, sensitive Mina before the events of Skellig in this lyrical and fantastical work.My Name is Mina is not only a pleasure to read, it is an intimate and enlightening look at a character whose open mind and heart have much to teach us about life, love, and the mysteries that surround us. Almond shows us Mina in a sensitive, perceptive way that I loved. My Name is Mina not quite a children’s book and not quite a young adult novel is a highly precocious nine-year-old English girl who has a grievance against society and against the school.

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