Firefly Lane was about the friendship between Kate and Tully.
This book, Fly Away, being the sequel to Firefly Lane, portrays how different people in the novel react to the death of Kate. Though it ends on a somewhat positive note, the whole book is very depressing. The adverse reaction of Tully and Marah was gloomy, and a majority of the book spoke about it.
Many scenes from the previous book were repeated, which wasn’t very appealing.
Johnny and Kate’s daughter Marah is a very irritating character, and the author has done a good job of portraying the character well. Marah has a mean streak and succeeds at hurting both her dad and Tully. It made me think a lot about parenting and why some children become problematic. Could the way Marah turned out to be blamed on anybody? Could there be a universal solution, one-answer-solves-it-all to troublemakers? Parenting is a tough job. Can parents be blamed for how children turn out in their future?
Despite Johnny’s best efforts to take care of the family, Marah goes astray.
The part that described the life of Tully’s Mother, who was Cloud/ Dorothy, was way too detailed, which I felt wasn’t needed.
I did not enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed Firefly Lane.