{"id":40509,"date":"2024-07-15T20:13:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T00:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=40509"},"modified":"2024-07-15T20:13:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T00:13:04","slug":"review-of-the-shape-of-thunder-by-jasmine-warga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=40509","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Shape of Thunder, by Jasmine Warga"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Shape of Thunder<\/em><\/p>\n

by Jasmine Warga
\nperformed by Reena Dutt and Jennifer Jill Araya<\/p>\n

HarperAudio, 2021. 7.25 hours on 6 discs.
\nReview written November 29, 2021, from a library audiobook
\nStarred Review<\/p>\n

The Shape of Thunder<\/em> is about two best friends, Cora and Quinn, who have been torn apart by grief and horror.<\/p>\n

Almost a year ago, Cora\u2019s sister Mabel was killed in a school shooting. Quinn\u2019s brother Parker was the one who did the shooting.<\/p>\n

Neither girl\u2019s family is coping well with what happened. They still live next door to one another, but Cora refuses to even speak to Quinn.<\/p>\n

Then Quinn gives Cora some articles \u2013 articles about time travel. The girls get caught up in the idea that they can find a wormhole and put back time and fix all that was broken.<\/p>\n

Cora approaches the effort as a scientist, reading interviews from scientists at MIT, clinging to any thread that time travel might be possible.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be honest, at risk of spoiling the story \u2013 if two twelve-year-old girls had managed to discover a wormhole and go back in time, I would have been disgusted with the book and the false hopes it might give to other girls.<\/p>\n

So maybe I\u2019m giving something away when I say that this book is a beautiful look at hard things \u2013 grief, friendship, family, life itself. A heart-wrenching story that is ultimately hopeful.<\/p>\n

jasminewarga.com<\/a>
\nharperaudio.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n

Disclaimer: I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n

What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n

*Note* To try to catch up on posting reviews, I\u2019m posting the oldest reviews I\u2019ve written on my blog without making a page on my main website. They\u2019re still good books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga performed by Reena Dutt and Jennifer Jill Araya HarperAudio, 2021. 7.25 hours on 6 discs. Review written November 29, 2021, from a library audiobook Starred Review The Shape of Thunder is about two best friends, Cora and Quinn, who have been torn apart by grief and horror. Almost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,10,21,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiobooks","category-childrens-fiction-review","category-contemporary","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40509"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44009,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40509\/revisions\/44009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}