Negative Positive
Title: almost, but not quite
Review: Jip is a good book, but not a great one. The pace at the beginning is very slow -- too slow for its target audience of 9-12 year olds. Jip's revelation comes late in the book and seems too lightly dealt with to be realistic. The end of the story is a page-turner, but the epilogue is truly a cheat -- it left me thinking "that's IT?!?"
Is the review positive or negative? 