Book Worm Review 2
So I thought we should do some halfway decent scary stuff for an October book review. That's what I'm gonna do. We'll save the fairy tales for Christmas.
Coraline
Maybe some of you know what it's like to move to a boring town. You have no friends. The neighbors are weird. They can't even pronounce your name right! Your parents suck and have no time for you. This is the kind of childhood rut Coraline Jones seems to be stuck in. Then one day she comes across a place nearly identical, except that everything is so much better...
You eat your favorite food all the time and your mom absolutely adores you and Dad seems cool too. I mean sure, they have buttons for eyes, but it's not too creepy once you get used to it right? And the neighbors are all so much more interesting. And everyone seems fixated on making you happy. The only one who thinks there's anything wrong with this picture is from the other world like you - but who needs a cats advice anyway? And then one day, they offer you the chance of staying with them forever....all you need to do is hand over your eyes and accept the buttons. Maybe it's time to leave.
Oh wait. You can't. The Bedlam does not understand the word no. After all what's wrong with what she's doing? She just wants to love you....to death.
I liked this book and I adored the movie. It is creepy and weird and positively frightening. Kinda has a deadly last word on the 'not all that glitters is gold' phrase. And no, that's not how the book ended. That was just to draw you in. Look up Neil Gaiman if you interested.
The Replacment
In the small town on Gentry children go missing and parents and neighbors look the other way. The replacements are nearly identical....except that they're not quite human and most of them don't survive. But some do.
Mackie Doyle has grown up in a world where iron is deadly and blood makes him violently sick.
He cannot go inside a church or stand on hallowed ground. He's feeling sicker and sicker lately. It's getting worse. To make matters more complicated, a girl named Tate knows that what they buried in the cemetery was not her baby sister. Tate isn't into pretending that nothing is wrong like with the rest of Gentry - and she's convinced Mackie has answers. Between dodging Tate and trying to act healthy he runs into a strange man standing near the slag heap who confirms it: you're dying."
There are people with a cure. But cures don't come without a price. But there bigger things going on than Mackie's sickness and cooperating with the ghouls that live beneath the town. What's really happening to the children that disappear? And why are they never found?
This is Brenna Yovanoff's first book and I'm hoping it's not her last. Bought the book on a total whim. Great characters, great story telling. I hope there are more books about Mackie to come.
Reckless
There's another world behind the mirror in the study where Jacob's Dad used to work. There are fairies, elves, dwarves....monsters. And the story does not always get a happy ending. Just check the skeletons around Sleeping Beauty's tower. Or ask Snow White about her marriage...
And speaking of monsters, Jacob's own brother is turning into one. It was not supposed to happen. Will was not supposed to know about the mirror world. Not supposed to be attacked by the stone men called Goyle, not supposed to be changing into one of them. And the Goyle are getting more powerful all the time with the Dark Fairy remains mistress to their king. They now have the ability to turn their enemies into one of them.
And now they have Jabob's brother.
If you are familiar with Cornelia Funke's work, I'd say this story is typical of her. All the good elements of a fairy tale without the sugar coating. I am hoping there is a sequel because the characters are very well rounded and it just seems like there are more places the story could explore. And the stage seems set for so much more.
Coraline
Maybe some of you know what it's like to move to a boring town. You have no friends. The neighbors are weird. They can't even pronounce your name right! Your parents suck and have no time for you. This is the kind of childhood rut Coraline Jones seems to be stuck in. Then one day she comes across a place nearly identical, except that everything is so much better...
You eat your favorite food all the time and your mom absolutely adores you and Dad seems cool too. I mean sure, they have buttons for eyes, but it's not too creepy once you get used to it right? And the neighbors are all so much more interesting. And everyone seems fixated on making you happy. The only one who thinks there's anything wrong with this picture is from the other world like you - but who needs a cats advice anyway? And then one day, they offer you the chance of staying with them forever....all you need to do is hand over your eyes and accept the buttons. Maybe it's time to leave.
Oh wait. You can't. The Bedlam does not understand the word no. After all what's wrong with what she's doing? She just wants to love you....to death.
I liked this book and I adored the movie. It is creepy and weird and positively frightening. Kinda has a deadly last word on the 'not all that glitters is gold' phrase. And no, that's not how the book ended. That was just to draw you in. Look up Neil Gaiman if you interested.
The Replacment
In the small town on Gentry children go missing and parents and neighbors look the other way. The replacements are nearly identical....except that they're not quite human and most of them don't survive. But some do.
Mackie Doyle has grown up in a world where iron is deadly and blood makes him violently sick.
He cannot go inside a church or stand on hallowed ground. He's feeling sicker and sicker lately. It's getting worse. To make matters more complicated, a girl named Tate knows that what they buried in the cemetery was not her baby sister. Tate isn't into pretending that nothing is wrong like with the rest of Gentry - and she's convinced Mackie has answers. Between dodging Tate and trying to act healthy he runs into a strange man standing near the slag heap who confirms it: you're dying."
There are people with a cure. But cures don't come without a price. But there bigger things going on than Mackie's sickness and cooperating with the ghouls that live beneath the town. What's really happening to the children that disappear? And why are they never found?
This is Brenna Yovanoff's first book and I'm hoping it's not her last. Bought the book on a total whim. Great characters, great story telling. I hope there are more books about Mackie to come.
Reckless
There's another world behind the mirror in the study where Jacob's Dad used to work. There are fairies, elves, dwarves....monsters. And the story does not always get a happy ending. Just check the skeletons around Sleeping Beauty's tower. Or ask Snow White about her marriage...
And speaking of monsters, Jacob's own brother is turning into one. It was not supposed to happen. Will was not supposed to know about the mirror world. Not supposed to be attacked by the stone men called Goyle, not supposed to be changing into one of them. And the Goyle are getting more powerful all the time with the Dark Fairy remains mistress to their king. They now have the ability to turn their enemies into one of them.
And now they have Jabob's brother.
If you are familiar with Cornelia Funke's work, I'd say this story is typical of her. All the good elements of a fairy tale without the sugar coating. I am hoping there is a sequel because the characters are very well rounded and it just seems like there are more places the story could explore. And the stage seems set for so much more.