My Never Ending List

Maggot Moon is a weird adventure and I had a bit of trouble keeping up with all the activity in the book, as it seemed that the jargon that Standish was using just didn’t click with me. The Motherland, the leather-coat man, the Greenflies just didn’t fit for me as I realized that I was trying to read more into it that I really needed to. After I read the book and I understood what actually happened, I went back and reread the first part and it made more sense. Standish speaks older than most 14 year-old boys as he writes this book.   I really enjoyed his “fricking-fracking” this and his “bloody” that as he talks throughout the book. Standish and his best friend, Hector dream about their planet Juniper as the rest of the world have their eyes peeled, getting ready for the moon landing. Standish tells so much about himself that you feel a connection but it’s not an emotional one. It’s the facts of his life and as you read, you want to know what’s going to happen next, where Hector actually went and now that you told me about the palace and the curse, I know there’s something going on with that palace. The little pictures of the rat and the fly inside most of the chapters were a great addition to the book.