Catfish Rolling

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I loved how Sora's relationships (with her father, her missing mother, and her guy friend) are messy and complicated. Sora struggles with her own identity throughout the novel – feeling somewhat adrift from her peers, half Canadian and half Japanese but not feeling that she truly fits into either space.

Early recruit Seb is determined to make his parents proud, but when he meets the enigmatic Finn, the boys begin to question the true nature of the institute and the challenges they must complete. Inspired by the fate of Penelope’s maids in Homer’s The Odyssey, this is a lavish epic of power, vengeance, love and fate.The timeline jumps back and forth through different periods of her life so the reader is putting the pieces together as they do. The most frustrating thing about Catfish Rolling is that more and more mysteries are introduced, and almost none of them are solved.

However, this concept is short-lived and the book quickly becomes absorbed in the daily life of Sora - her future, her relationship with her father, the shock of her lost mother, and her struggles as a minority.To stop it moving and causing damage a huge rock is placed on it but every now and again the catfish moves the rock and Japan shakes. Now Sora and he One is a dystopian story about earthquakes in Japan that, surprisingly, moved not only ground, but time itself. I started reading with such intrigue and wonder, I was fascinated by this story but in the end, it was just ok.