Review: A Beautiful Story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 19, 2012
Owlet by Emma Michaels is a beautifully written piece of work that draws you in from the first page on. It was smart, emotionally driven with well-developed characters, and a completely original storyline matched by none.Owlet begins as Iris, a young girl who has mysteriously lost her memories years prior to the story and has told no one, dreams of an island that she flies to. She calls it her Never-Never (derived from Peter Pan's Neverland) and wishes to be there all the time. After an asthma attack her father discovers this dream and takes Iris to the island of her dreams, and once she's there she learns more about her father and herself than she could have hoped for.Owlet is a poetic tale of a young asthmatic girl who desires for more out of life, but is constantly hindered by her asthma that keeps her from going far. Once she arrives to the island of her dreams - her Never-Never - she learns secrets her father and her best friend had kept from her her whole life, and also of a boy who is from her past and asks for her to never leave again. With poems, legends, and information about birds and their various types; Owlet proves to be an intricate, smart, beautiful story written by an author with serious talent and an ending that will leave you in utter suspense.