40.) Room by Emma Donoghue

“When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything”

Room by Emma Donoghue ( Little, Brown and Company, 2010)


Genre: Adult Novel that appeals to teens, General Fiction

Honors: Man Booker Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2010), Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2011), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in Caribbean and Canada (2011), Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction (2010), Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction, Nominee for Favorite Heroine (2010) ALA Alex Award (2011), Indies Choice Book Award for Fiction (2011), Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Award for Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year (2010), Abraham Lincoln Award Nominee (2014), Galaxy National Book Award for WHSmith Paperback of the Year (2011), Trillium Book Award Nominee for English-language (2011) [Honors Information found at Goodreads.com]

Review: Told entirely from the point of view of a five-year-old, Room is about a woman who is kidnapped and kept in a small shack in her kidnapper's backyard. In the years she was held captive she gave birth to her son Jack. Jack spent his whole life knowing nothing but the one room, but when she is afraid that her captor's house would be foreclosed and the shack abandoned she needs to make an attempt at escape that would relie on Jack's bravery to venture into a world he knows nothing about.  

Opinion: A very interesting novel that gave me goosebumps to read. I listened to this on audio and the narration was very well done, with several narrators. The suspense of the escape with very nail-biting, but the entire second half of the novel was just okay, but maybe could have been shortened. Regardless, it's a very good book.

Ideas: I would recommend this to anyone who likes good general fiction reads. Also maybe recommend this book to anyone who likes crime books, even though this is not a crime book it is centered around a crime.