SuitabookJelly
Clare Rees
- Reading
- Read alongside the young person if uncertainty or grim humour may need unpacking. Pause after the escape plan to discuss competing risks, then check in about the ending’s emotional impact.
- Themes
- Confinement and community: Martha and others have been unable to leave the jellyfish and cannot get away from one another. The premise foregrounds the pressures of enforced community, but it is unclear whether the relationships are ultimately supportive, harmful or mixed.
- Hope under extreme uncertainty: The characters do not know how they arrived, how long they have been there or where they are going, yet decide to attempt escape. The decision suggests determination under severe uncertainty, but the story's judgement of the plan and its consequences is unknown.
- Worth knowing
- The book may deserve attention if a reader finds death, traumatic backstory, prolonged confinement or threatened fatal escape attempts difficult. The extent and detail of these elements remain unclear.