Pearl by Brian Kindall

Summary

Pearl can’t move. She’s never wanted to, until now. Life above the waves beckons to her as she watches the boats moving along the surface of the water above her. Pearl is a statue carved of milk-white stone that has stood on the floor of an ancient sea for a thousand years, but she’s waking up, and she wants more. As desire builds within her, it propels her on a journey that takes her to an exotic island grotto, into the midst of a bloody revolution, underground into a rat-infested tomb, and, at last, to a magical mountain paradise. Crazed rebels, wise philosophers, greedy grave robbers, and a few other friendly people and fish accompany her along the way, as she asks the question, “Is desire enough?” She'll have to have faith in the stars. She'll have to muster more courage than she's ever imagined. But perhaps by journey's end, Pearl will believe in herself, experience a miracle, and realize her greatest desire of all.

My Thoughts

I can honestly and wholeheartedly say that I have never before read a book quite like this book.  I kept going back and forth from liking it to not liking it.  However, the good outweighed the not as good, so the liking outweighed the not liking.

Pearl is considered a middle grade book but I can see adults enjoying it as well.  It is a short book, at only 166 pages, but I didn't feel like the book was lacking anything in the story.  As a matter of fact, the ending was just what I was hoping for.

*Note: I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.