“When there is no time, everything else matters” (18).
“When people don’t know when something is going to end--or start again in this case, they go a little cracked. Everything feels like forever” (105).
On June 23, 2020, time suddenly stopped. Everything else on Earth has continued pretty much as normal, and the problem of time is being treated as a project for high school students to solve. One such student, Truda Becker, is convinced that the reason for the time issue is that people just don’t care enough about one another. Truda’s also dealing with an odd home life. Her mother and sister have left, and her father spends all of his time building boxes to encapsulate portions of their home and render a mysterious switch inaccessible.
Switch was a bit of a roller coaster for me. The concept and the first few pages intrigued me. As I continued reading, things got really weird and I wasn’t sure I liked it. When I finally settled into the style and embraced the book, I ended up really enjoying it. The novel has a very surreal feeling, and I’m sure certain aspects are intended to be more figurative than literal. King does an excellent job of capturing the feeling of being stuck that’s accompanied the CoVid pandemic-everything in the novel continues on even as time stands still. There’s also an emphasis on the idea that we tend to spend much of our time and energy on trivial matters and neglect the things that are really important.
The bottom line is that while it starts out a little tough to follow, Switch is an interesting and unique take.
Thank you to Bookish First and Dutton Books for Young Readers for the gifted copy in exchange for an honest review.
“When people don’t know when something is going to end--or start again in this case, they go a little cracked. Everything feels like forever” (105).
On June 23, 2020, time suddenly stopped. Everything else on Earth has continued pretty much as normal, and the problem of time is being treated as a project for high school students to solve. One such student, Truda Becker, is convinced that the reason for the time issue is that people just don’t care enough about one another. Truda’s also dealing with an odd home life. Her mother and sister have left, and her father spends all of his time building boxes to encapsulate portions of their home and render a mysterious switch inaccessible.
Switch was a bit of a roller coaster for me. The concept and the first few pages intrigued me. As I continued reading, things got really weird and I wasn’t sure I liked it. When I finally settled into the style and embraced the book, I ended up really enjoying it. The novel has a very surreal feeling, and I’m sure certain aspects are intended to be more figurative than literal. King does an excellent job of capturing the feeling of being stuck that’s accompanied the CoVid pandemic-everything in the novel continues on even as time stands still. There’s also an emphasis on the idea that we tend to spend much of our time and energy on trivial matters and neglect the things that are really important.
The bottom line is that while it starts out a little tough to follow, Switch is an interesting and unique take.
Thank you to Bookish First and Dutton Books for Young Readers for the gifted copy in exchange for an honest review.