I LOVE this week’s
category. Travel can be such a rich metaphor, especially in the YA world where
protagonists struggle to figure out who they are. Travel is often able to serve
as the vehicle for that – pun definitely
intended! So without further ado, here are the top
ten (mostly YA) books that feature travel in some way:
(Original feature courtesy of The Broke and the Bookish)
While I wasn’t
100% thrilled with this book (largely because it seems to become a different
novel halfway through), I did adore the notion of portals that Brimstone, the
mysterious chimaera who serves as father-figure to main character Karou, is
able to conjure. These portals are secret doors that can only be opened from
the inside, and from within, they lead to places all over the world: Prague,
Paris, and Hong Kong. Brimstone sends Karou on errands through the portals, and
between these and the big wish she makes later in the novel to be gifted with a
certain mode of transport (think: the feathers on the cover), overall I was left
with a taste of the joyful freedom of travel, although for Karou this is
tempered by her loneliness.
