#14 of 2012: The Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
This wasn’t a difficult read - I enjoyed it, in fact - but there were just a lot of times I wanted to edit out a couple of pages. That’s the pay for having a quieter than normal protagonist, the author having to end up a heck long of monologues you could actually figure out for yourself. Not that I’m saying Catherine Gilbert Murdock was underestimating her readers when she wrote DJ’s story, just that I thought DJ could have deserved a better characterization. Oh, well, at least there were more good things than that. I liked that this story turned out to be as interesting as possible. I thought it wasn’t heavily cliched, what with the setting in the farmland and with DJ being both a farm girl and an athlete —- talk about GIRL POWER! She proved herself more further in the story when she showed so much responsibility for her actions and thoughts, in terms of familial, peer, and relationship issues, which in themselves were also smartly crafted. Yay for a first book in a series!
(More) Yay!s
-I really can’t deny I enjoyed DJ and Brian’s budding ~romance, built through farm work and workouts. That’s something new, I’ll say.
-Murdock ~milked it with bending genders!
Boo!
-Long monologues, as I said. A reader isn’t without a mind, you know.
