by Daniel Nayeri, Dina Nayeri
*sigh* What to say about this book? I don't want to be negative, but it just didn't work for me for a variety of reasons I won't get into. If I had been reading this instead of listening there is no way I would have finished it. With that little bit being said I give this 2 Stars, it wasn't bad just...
Katherine Kellgren has an extraordinary talent for accents. Russian, French, Italian, British (various kinds), American, you name it she's got it down pat. So with all the different voices in Another Faust, it was necessary to have a narrator with this sort of talent. Kellgren has the type of voice ...
To e truthful about this book, I liked it. I really did. Even through all the confusion I felt while first reading it, the book wasn't a total disappointment. Not going into any major spoilers or anything, but just to give some background information so that maybe people could better understand the ...
I started reading this book but the font size was annoying the heck out of me so it got really hard to pay attention to details. If the publishers change the font I might give it another try.
There were moments when I got interested, but there were also moments when I completely lost interest. It's a modern version of Faust.
This new rendition of the classic Faustian bargain has a brilliant conception and is an enjoyable read, but lacking in resolution and more importantly information. I find it somewhat impressive that they manage to actually make you care about these kids (excepting Victoria who never had my sympathy ...
This book just didn't do it for me. It had a good lesson to be learned for the YA audience it is meant. In the beginning, one of the girls asks her sister if she would rather sell her soul to be young, thin and beautiful forever, or keep her soul and be fat and ugly. Well, that is foreshadowing i...