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4.0 3

Going Bovine

Young Adult Fiction 385

The Strange and Funny Mind of an Author

February 16, 2010 (Updated: July 12, 2026)

Overall rating

5.0

Plot

5.0

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Reader reviewed by Victoria Morris

I found Libba Bray through her Gemma Doyle series, so I did want to read this because I knew her voice.

This was so different all together. I was caught up instantly in the struggle Cameron faces, and found myself half wondering and half knowing the story as it went alone.

The surprise wasn't in the ending for me, but in how she played out the scenes through the entire tale. With strange dreamlike realities overshadowing the actuals so seemlessly that you don't know where you are until the last few words.

Not something I would have picked up on it's own for the cover, though it played out in the story with lighthearted silliness, nor for what was said in back copy...Bray alone made me pick it up off the shelf. And I'm glad I did.

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