Noah Barleywater Runs Away by John Boyne

Noah Barleywater Runs Away by John Boyne

 

Noah Barleywater left home in the early morning, before the sun rose, before the dogs woke, before the dew stopped falling on the fields.

A nice, easy read. A book in which not a lot of action takes place. Simple, slightly boring at first, but it gets more interesting - not considerably more though... Is this a book addictive book? Defiantly not, but I'll tell any potential Noah Barleywater Runs Away readers what it is. An average story with gradually, slow building pace almost like an artery slowly closing up with gunk. It is a book that I could of put down and happily never picked up again, yet I did not do that and matter of factually I read it...I'm somewhat of a book craving adrenaline junkie, so I do not know why I continued to read this specific book...Though I did actually like it...just about.

Not very surprising, but Noah Barleywater runs away...He runs away from his parents and if I told the potential Noah Barleywater Runs Away readers why, well that would just ruin one of two worth reading twists in the story. Though Noah does claim that his reason for leaving home is simply because he wants to go on an adventure...

On his travels through villages strange occurrences take place such as hospitalized apples, a hungry donkey, an easily offended dachshund, spectacular trees - well just the one(hint*cough*book cover) and where many helpful wooden objects are present. Noah seems to take all of the unusual goings on quite well - he just excepts them without much consideration.

My Cat Catch Book Rating Scale above- I liked it...just about(3/5 cats)

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 I must mention that I feel somewhat disappointed with Noah as a character - he appears to be almost identical in nature to John Boyne's other small boy character Barnaby Brocket from The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket. Although, one must eliminate Barnaby Brocket's ability to float, following this they may as well be twins except maybe a few minor details regarding brief physical appearances. Furthermore John Boyne has a knack for not clearly wanting to give much description on the physical appearance of his characters...We are told Noah is short for his age, has black hair and green eyes - that is completely acceptable, but not when John Boyne doesn't develop his characters personalities enough! His readers are left with scraps for a character instead of a nicely done, not at all burned around the edges type of character.