Name: Season of the Briar
ISBN: 9780192712592

Hesba Fay Brinsmead

Matt gets a summer job with a weed-spraying unit, which turns to disaster in the wilderness area of South-West Tasmania.

Season of the Briar

Jane Krauss

I started reading this book years ago and then forgot all about it. Honestly, I found the storyline hard to get into; I kept putting it off. It felt like it took forever to get to the main point of the story, which I found very uninteresting. The story gained some momentum toward the middle, and there was an element of mystery. I found the deaf character very hard to follow, perhaps that could have been written better.
I loved Gisela’s story and wanted more focus on her instead of the spray boys. I also felt like there were too many untied loose ends.