'I found this novel to be disjointed and a little boring'
Melon Fouraki's mother is knocked down and killed by a London bus. Melon is trying to come to terms with this. She at first stays with her best friend's family but doesn't seem to be welcome there as they find it hard to relate to what has happened. So she moves back to her home to live with Paul, her mother's boyfriend.
Melon struggles to live her life as normal because her friends are uncomfortable around her and she feels very alone. Her relationship with Paul is very tenuous and she doesn't feel like she can talk to him about her family or what she is going through. Paul agrees to take her to Greece to scatter her mother's ashes and make contact with her family. Melon's life from that point on changes forever.
This was okay but definitely not the best YA novel I have read recently. I felt that I didn't really bond with Melon much as a character probably because the story didn't seem to flow that well for me. I liked Paul's character but again he wasn't particularly interesting enough to make me like the book any better. I found this novel to be disjointed and a little boring.
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