Wonder

hmm...might be a 4.5, but going to leave it at 4 for now. Mostly because I thought the ending kinda fell apart there was also the whole thing with the dog, but we'll leave that alone. You know that saying, "as long as the dog/cat/goldfish/etc. lives..."? Yeah, that's me . I mean, I'm all for happy endings and rainbows and moonbeams and the like, but this felt a little too sugary. The Star Wars themes played, good guys won, the kid who avoided having his picture taken like it was the plague suddenly is front and center, the semi-bad guys were redeemed to became good guys and the un-redeemed (and his parents) slunk away to another school never to scowl at the kind children of Beecher Prep again. Oh and what school administrator asks a 11 year old, without either the parents present or having talked to them first, if he wants to press charges? He's 11. yeah. No.

Up to the 3 days in nature portion, I did enjoy the story. I particularly liked Olivia as narrator, talking about how she had always and would always live in Auggie's shadow and being ok with it even when she wasn't.