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A Solitary Blue The Tillerman Series #3 Cynthia Voigt Books

A few months ago Cynthia Voigt was unknown to me. Now I have read four of her novels (the first four in the Tillerman cycle) and have been repeatedly impressed. She has a knack for getting us inside the head and heart of the main character. We get to know what he or she says (or leaves unsaid) and why. We see what the main characters do and care about them and their actions. I have finished each book wanting immediately to reread it, to savor how beautifully the story is revealed to the reader. (I have so far resisted the temptation and instead read another book in the cycle.)

One of Voigt's skills is to mine her material in different ways. In Homecoming we meet the four Tillerman children, an aunt, and their grandmother. In Dicey's Song we focus on Dicey, the eldest child, and get to know some of the people the family interacts with. In A Solitary Blue, the boy and his professor father and beautiful, flighty mother are vivid characters and have engrossing stories and lives, but for about two thirds of the book I wondered what do they had to do with the Tillermans. Oh! Jeff (who in the start of the novel is about five) is one of the high school friends of Dicey! Their lives and stories then begin to intertwine. In The Runner we go back to 1967-68 and meet their late uncle "Bullet," properly named Samuel (after whom Sammy is named) and get to see what Dicey's grandparents were like decades earlier than the first two books in the cycle.

Each book is enjoyable and fine all by itself; you can jump in anywhere and do not have to read more than one of the novels. Each offers interesting insights into (and perhaps lessons on) life through how the characters handle challenges, handle risk, reach out or hide. When you combine the books, however, they are even more meaningful, enjoyable, and impressive. Voigt is an amazing talent, one I am recommending to my seventh and eighth grade students and to my adult friends, too.


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A Solitary Blue The Tillerman Series #3 Cynthia Voigt Books Reviews

The book started off so different. I wasn't sure about the connection to the first books. The story is necessary I discovered to weave the lives together. Jeff is a complicated character just like Dicey. The emotions and turmoil that Jeff goes through are really felt by the reader. Cynthia Voight does a great job. Can't wait to continue reading the next phases of everyone's life.
Highly recommend this entire series of books.
Voigt's novels are multi-layered, the characters are complex, and the scenes are well-rendered. This books lets us learn more about the character Jeff, and provides another view (from the outside)!of the Tillerman family. Great read!
"A Solitary Blue" is a fantastic novel. It is the third book in The Tillerman Series, but I think that it could also be read alone. I read this book when I was in Junior High and remember really enjoying it, but I think I appreciated it so much more this time. Cynthia Voigt did an incredible job of letting the reader into Jeff's mind. I loved "watching" him grow and mature. My heart broke for him at times--he had such a tough life. It was also neat reading his version of meeting Dicey and the other Tillermans. When I finished reading this book (this time around), the only thing I could think was "Wow. That was incredible."
I love this series following a family of youngsters as they cope with survival after being abandoned by their mother. The writing allows insights into many life issues and the story lines are plausible and not predictable, just as is life. Thank you, Cynthia Voigt !
What a book! The main characters are slowly revealed and then developed. Fantastic! If you want to be a writer, read this book. The only bad thing...it is not really a continuation of the story from parts 1 and 2
I read this book for the first time when I was a kid. I'd read Homecoming and liked the Tillerman family. This was a heavy book about a boy trying to connect with the mother who left him and the father who threw himself into his work as a result. I love this book. It is one of my all time favorites and I've read it many times since first reading it
A few months ago Cynthia Voigt was unknown to me. Now I have read four of her novels (the first four in the Tillerman cycle) and have been repeatedly impressed. She has a knack for getting us inside the head and heart of the main character. We get to know what he or she says (or leaves unsaid) and why. We see what the main characters do and care about them and their actions. I have finished each book wanting immediately to reread it, to savor how beautifully the story is revealed to the reader. (I have so far resisted the temptation and instead read another book in the cycle.)

One of Voigt's skills is to mine her material in different ways. In Homecoming we meet the four Tillerman children, an aunt, and their grandmother. In Dicey's Song we focus on Dicey, the eldest child, and get to know some of the people the family interacts with. In A Solitary Blue, the boy and his professor father and beautiful, flighty mother are vivid characters and have engrossing stories and lives, but for about two thirds of the book I wondered what do they had to do with the Tillermans. Oh! Jeff (who in the start of the novel is about five) is one of the high school friends of Dicey! Their lives and stories then begin to intertwine. In The Runner we go back to 1967-68 and meet their late uncle "Bullet," properly named Samuel (after whom Sammy is named) and get to see what Dicey's grandparents were like decades earlier than the first two books in the cycle.

Each book is enjoyable and fine all by itself; you can jump in anywhere and do not have to read more than one of the novels. Each offers interesting insights into (and perhaps lessons on) life through how the characters handle challenges, handle risk, reach out or hide. When you combine the books, however, they are even more meaningful, enjoyable, and impressive. Voigt is an amazing talent, one I am recommending to my seventh and eighth grade students and to my adult friends, too.