The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

I feel like The Girl Who Ate the Moon is what happens when someone tries to novelize a Ghibli movie. In fact, I can see the Miyazaki animations in my head for each of the characters. Might be a good adaptation one day.

Through most of the book, I wondered why Xan hadn’t ever decided to go talk to the people of The Protectorate and find out why they kept leaving babies every year. That question is sort of answered, but not satisfactorily enough for me liking, really. Just one of those things, I guess.

The story was a fairly slow build to a fairly meandering conclusion. Not bad, not the best. I was definitely pulled into the world and really it was just that one question niggling the back of my head.

I don’t really have much else to say about The Girl Who Ate the Moon. It wasn’t very thought-provoking. A more whimsical read than what I’ve been reading lately.