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Colour Me In by Lydia Ruffles (view source)
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The choice to write in third person present-tense is an interesting one, and lends the novel a slow, slightly dreamy quality, but means that it never really picks up much speed. This makes immersing yourself in the plot difficult – and it took me a while to really get into it – but the chapters are reasonably quick and so in a lot of places the story feels rather like a series of rapid snapshots.
I haven't read Lydia Ruffles' first book (''A [[The Taste of Blue Light''by Lydia Ruffles|The Taste of Blue Light]]) but I'll be on the lookout for it. ''Colour Me In'' is a heavy read, and not one I'll be returning to in a hurry – it needs time to digest – but if YA is your thing, you will love this. Expect to be hearing about this a lot in the months to come.
If you've not had your fill of books that might make you cry, [[The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner]] and ppOrbiting Jupiter by Gary D Schmidt]] are both powerful, hard-hitting YA books I loved.