The romantic attractions of the various characters (Jazz, Daisy and Dylan are also along for the ride) are a big part of the story, but I really didn’t know exactly how they would work themselves out, and it didn’t matter–I imagined several possible satisfying endings to their stories.

I thought they matched the characters well. The audio has three narrators, and I really liked being able to hear the Australian voices.

Three distinct voices: Lucy, the aspiring glass artist obsessed with the graffiti artist Shadow Shadow/Ed himself (he and Lucy have a past, but she doesn’t know he’s Shadow), who quit school, has just lost his job, and feels like a loser and Poet/Leo, Shadow’s partner in crime (as you might guess, he provides words to go with some of Shadow’s paintings).

Like, it restored my faith in happy book feelings loved it.

It reminded me a bit of Jaclyn Moriarty‘s Year of Secret Assignments (aka Finding Cassie Crazy) and Rachel Cohn and David Levithan’s Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. If, like me, you enjoyed those books, this one will probably work for you. It’s about a group of Melbourne teens finding themselves and their dreams and maybe each other on what is, for most of them, the last night of Year 12. Somehow, I had the vague impression that this was some kind of urban fantasy, like a YA version of Emma Bull’s War for the Oaks. It’s not. I’ll delete it now I’ve listened, I promise). The other day, I rediscovered it on my iPod. I downloaded it for myself because I had vague positive associations with it.

I can’t remember where I first heard about it, but I stumbled on it when I was searching the library for vacation audiobooks for my kids. (We all know less than 1000 words seems to be impossible for me).Ĭath Crowley‘s Graffiti Moon was a serendipitous audiobook discovery. So once again, I’m going to aim for some short reviews/reflections on my reading. Next week is Back to School Week for my kids and me, so this week is All the Meetings Week for me.

Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley