A review by octavia_cade
Into the River by Ted Dawe

adventurous reflective medium-paced

3.0

This book was very briefly banned in New Zealand a few years back - God only knows why, unless it's the depiction of teenagers acting like teenagers - but the whole affair was so ridiculous that I promised myself I'd read it one day to see what the fuss was about. Sanity prevailed, and book was quickly back in public libraries, which is where I borrowed this copy from. I liked it. I did think it was rather disjointed and could have been a more coherent whole, and I felt the ending was depressingly predictable. That school... talk about slapping down students who were different. 

But yeah. Not worth banning. I was a little bit disappointed, to be honest, that it wasn't deservedly scandalous! I was all prepared to clutch my pearls and everything.