I’ve heard good things about Kids of Appetite but I’m extremely wary of reading more from David Arnold now. He has won the Southern Book Prize and the Great Lakes Book Award, and was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start for his debut. I’ll just leave that there.Įssentially, this book is a product of the John Green era of YA literature and it has not aged well. David Arnold is the New York Times bestselling author of The Electric Kingdom, Mosquitoland, Kids of Appetite, and The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik, which has been optioned for film by Paramount. There’s also a painfully boring insta-love plot between the main character and a guy who was so generic I’ve already forgotten his name.This is played off as a triumphant moment of self-empowerment because relying on medication to stay sane is weak and our heroine is strong, or some such bullshit. At the end of the book, Mim throws away her meds for mental illness, deciding she doesn’t need them anymore.Mim also spends a great deal of the book body-shaming people and mentioning physical traits she finds ugly at seemingly random moments.Mim is a classic “not like other girls” girl, and takes care to remind the reader just how “not like other girls” she is at every opportunity.The main character, Mim, takes her friend who has Down syndrome to the vet when he’s ill because the doctor’s surgery was conveniently closed.I had LOTS of issues with the content of this one, including but not limited to: Unfortunately, the plot is all over the place. Book review: Mosquitoland by David ArnoldĪrnold is a genuinely decent writer and if I was just reviewing this book for the quality of the prose, I’d probably give Mosquitoland 3 or 4 stars.
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