Room

 

OVERVIEW:

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.

Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough...not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son's bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work.

Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, ROOM is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another.

REVIEW:

So how do I review this book?! First of all, this book is so hard to read. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great book… but this is my first time reading a book wherein the narrator is a 5 year old kid. The first part of the book really got me in a reading slump and I was debating whether or not I should continue to read this book. 

The story is about “Jack” and his “Ma”, they live in “room”, and it’s basically a shed in a garden or in the back house. They are both captives of “old nick”, he usually visits or sleeps in “Room” at night. Jack thinks that room is the world and that outside is outer space, and that the stuff that he sees on the television is not real. Anyway when Jack turned 5 his Ma thought of an escape plan…

This book is so frustrating and it’s really hard to grasp at first, because it’s a bit confusing and some of the stuff in the book was just gross and disturbing. Well it takes a lot of determination to finish this book, it’s a sad, disturbing, happy’ish, confusing book that’s for sure.   

RATING:

4.0