Midnight

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But throughout young Violet's story, Will remains her number one person, when he torments her for fun. I think Will needed a lesson that could make it a more solid impression that he would behave better in the future.

I'm usually pretty good at guessing endings, and all that was coming to me is 'she's going to be brutally murdered by her own brother, WHY CANT HER FAMILY SEE THIS? One day, Violet's father said that they were to go to their Gran's house to wish her a happy birthday but Will refused because of how she had charmlessly told him about his being adopted. This deals a lot with adoption, although I feel like there was no wrap up on it, and it could easily be extended into a second book, or maybe a series, focusing more on Will.

Si el libro fuera más largo para haber podido ver más evolución de los personajes y un final más cerrado creo que le habría puesto 5 estrellas, pero me han faltado cosas para quedarme contenta. Violet has an obsession with fairies created by her favourite author Casper Dreams, struggles to make friends and is emotionally abused by her brother—who just happens to be adopted and uses that as his excuse for his behaviour.

Sobre los personajes, odio el comportamiento bipolar y sádico que tiene Will, y me da igual las escusas que el libro le quiera dar para justificar ese comportamiento de mierda que tiene. The atmosphere of this book is pretty dark and depressing, I think this novel would be great for Halloween. But there are some very serious issues of manipulation and control that went totally unaddressed and made me extremely uncomfortable.It could be used as part of childrens creative writing to help them come up with ideas or new plots that would help a character like Violet to have a better life; it gives them a chance to be more imaginative. Last Christmas, they found out that Will was adopted when Will was rude to their grandmother, and she said something about bad blood.

I decided to read this book because of it's title, Midnight,(It all seemed rather exciting and mysterious), the author, Jacqueline Wilson and its fantastic blurb. I just feel nothing significant happened or changed except Violet got to meet her favourite author and discover that she had a talent with ragdoll making. It deals with a relationship issue, very possible abuse, definite verbal abuse towards wife and kids, in my personal opinion. Forever in the spell of her controlling and mesmerising older brother Will, Violet needs something to change for her. Even though she adores Will, Violet refuses to spend a day with him, to go to Brompton Woods, and instead chooses to go to Jasmine's house.Violet is a lonely, 13-year-old child who is manipulated into doing things by her brother, playing games she hates and being tricked into an attic full of bats just to prove to him that she loves him. The Parents aren’t around much so I can’t really comment on their characters except they seem to be naive of Will’s behaviour to his sister and are also victims of his behaviour too.

It was a little bit of a shock reading it back though, especially with the truth behind Will (no spoilers, but if you have read it, if I say the attic, you’ll get what I mean).The Illustrated Mum won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award, the 1999 Children’s Book of the Year at the British Book Awards and was also shortlisted for the 1999 Whitbread Children’s Book Award. As I read I felt uneasy about certain things and I can hazard a guess as to how my teenage self would have reacted.