SuitabookThe outlandish adventures of Liberty Aimes
Kelly Easton
- Reading
- Before reading, acknowledge that Liberty’s home life is restrictive and unusual. During reading, pause around the laboratory and escape to discuss what Liberty knows, fears or hopes, without assuming how events will resolve.
- Themes
- Freedom and self-determination: Liberty moves from captivity and restricted knowledge towards an independent search for her destiny. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Stories and imagination: Liberty’s secret children’s books and fairy tales are her only knowledge of the outside world before she encounters magical beings and potions. Reading and fantasy appear to open a route towards discovery, but their precise value or limitations are not established.
- Family power and responsibility: Liberty’s father is a crook who sells insurance, while her mother remains at home and demands that Liberty cook nonstop. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Liberty’s captivity, forced domestic responsibility and parents’ troubling behaviour deserve attention. Talking animals, potions and an escape may also bring an intense or unsettling tone, though their consequences are not clear.