Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid fall of Liz Truss

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I understand that there needs to be some conflict, sure, but it was all due to lack of communication between the main characters and something that could've easily been solved if they'd talked and stopped assuming what the other was thinking, feeling and doing. Jason June tells the story of the merfolk Crest who has to spend one month on land (under the name Ross) and help a human, as part of the Journey, an ancient mer tradition. Because while I appreciate what Jason June was trying to do with the body positivity aspect of the story, by having both Sean and Kavya be thicc and curvy.

Truss had hatched a plan to cut childcare costs by slashing the number of adults required to supervise children, which unsurprisingly proved controversial. I usually have a very hard time reading books due to my ADHD and much prefer audiobooks, so it's a pretty high honor that I was able to finish this in just two days! Perhaps one of the most surreal creatures to be found beneath the ocean’s surface, the jellyfish moves through the sea like a dancer.Frann Preston- Gannon offers pictures that suggest ages past alongside technical drawings, such as the development of gills to ‘ jaws, ears and throats’. I liked how the author created this whole background on them, changed from the way many view mermaids. Like, it's jarring to go from Ross shouting "What the flick" and referring to their friends with names like Drop and Wave on one page and then hitting yet another description of a raging stiffy the next. And I KNOW that the point was that Sean (and Kavya) didn't "look" the part, and everyone underestimated them, but.

The book follows two perspectives: Crest, a teen merperson, who, within one moon cycle, has to help a human to become an Elder and Sean, a human lifeguard who's miserable because of a recent break-up. My biggest issue which made the last part of the book a real struggle for me: The only thing I hate more than not-happy endings, is not-happy endings that the characters telegraph for you beforehand. They may have been initially shallow-minded towards humans, but honestly who can blame them – humans suck. Ross's choice of the Blue over Sean was in the mer's mind all the time, and the story let me hope not once, but twice, that they would end up together after a twist, only for the author to double back and say "nope, the right choice is to pick Home, not Love".

Now, I don't want to spoil anything, but I'll just say that while it may seem like a very clichéd story (and I don't mean this in a negative way at all), it actually. But as the two spend more time together and Crest’s pespective on humans begins to change, they’ll soon be torn between two worlds. But Jaya can't stand his obsession and, struggling to make sense of her mother's sudden death and her own role on that fateful day, she's determined to stay out of it. But, as one may imagine, not everything will go according to plan and Ross will discover that maybe humans aren't that bad after all. It’s hard to be like “it makes me feel weird and uncomfortable so it’s bad” because this is geared for young adults and I’m not the target audience.

Devoting such a large part of a main character's mindset to "winning back" an awful person managed to annoy me a lot. The perspective switches back and forth between Sean and nonbinary merperson Crest, which makes for some really wonderful contrasts in how they each experience events – I quickly fell in love with them both, and was really rooting for them to realise they were in love with each other! Private Eye accused Starmer of stealing the joke from the issue they had published that day, which referred to Out of the Blue as "Due out on 8 December. In fact, Stef Murphy’s sweeping landscapes and sympathetic colour use means Out of the Blue a striking reading experience. What’s more other species joined them and developed ashore, from scorpions to ‘spiders, ticks and mites’.

There are inklings of other potential plots -- like Sean's interest in film, or swimming -- but they're ultimately just vehicles for physical moments.

You don't just luck into that; if you place third in the state, you're getting a scholarship to swim at college somewhere -- and your training would reflect that.With climate change a force in every species’ existence, it is important to realise the evolution of life on Earth. Your words, like your reviews, bring books to life and give them a voice before the front cover is even turned. Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the . I have a big soft spot for swimming (I always wanted to be a mermaid as a child), and this book definitely brought back those childhood dreams.