SuitabookInto the Volcano
Jess Butterworth
- Reading
- A check-in before reading may help, especially around the shooting and bereavement. During or afterwards, pause to talk about the characters’ feelings, choices and changing ideas about help.
- Themes
- Grief and remembrance: Vivi’s grandmother dies in the shooting, and Vivi wishes to honour her while feeling lost. The story gives grief a central place in the characters’ emotional journey, alongside the physical adventure.
- Hope and healing: Seb believes a rainbow pool in Yellowstone may help heal Clay, who was seriously injured in the shooting. The quest places a hopeful belief at the centre of a dangerous attempt to help someone else.
- Friendship under pressure: Seb and Vivi meet through the shooting’s consequences and undertake the Yellowstone mission together. Their relationship develops while they face grief and physical danger in an unfamiliar wilderness.
- Worth knowing
- Consider discussing it first if a reader may find shootings, bereavement, serious injury, trauma or survival danger particularly difficult. The emotional journey is described as central, not incidental.