Dust City
Henry Whelp, son of the Big Bad Wolf, investigates what happened to the fairies that used to protect humans and animalia, and what role the corporation that manufactures synthetic fairy dust played in his father's crime.
Henry Whelp, son of the Big Bad Wolf, investigates what happened to the fairies that used to protect humans and animalia, and what role the corporation that manufactures synthetic fairy dust played in his father's crime.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781595142962 (1595142967)
Publish date: September 30th 2010
Publisher: Razorbill
Pages no: 299
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Teen,
Paranormal,
Urban Fantasy,
Cultural,
Romance,
Shapeshifters,
Mystery,
Fairy Tales,
Canada,
Werewolves
I wasn't able to get through this book. It was a good idea but it just didn't grab my attention.I hardly ever stop a book mid-way through but I did here. And then I forgot about it. At this point, a few weeks later, I can't really remember anything about it. None of the characters or the plot re...
I picked this book up on a whim a while back, when it was on offer at a favorite discount store here. I'd never heard of it before, but thought that it looked interesting, and for $2.99 I'm willing to chance it. So now I've read it, and... well... There were some things that I liked, and some things...
The GoodThe drugs. Like the pixie dust in Holly Black’s The Modern Faerie Tales and the porridge in Jasper Fforde’s The Fourth Bear, faerie dust is a drug. And not a nice, happy drug like pot either. Dust is basically crack. Because of its addictive nature but temporary effects, Dust is in high dem...
A book about being the son of the Big Bad Wolf really should not be boring. But the Big Bad Wolf is not Big or Bad at all -- he's more like a pathetic little stooge, the two-bit criminal who ends up playing the fall guy for the real masterminds. But still a criminal, someone who could be taken advan...
This was a great twist on retold fairy tales and certainly deserves four stars for it's plot. But I felt the world building was a little lackluster. Something about it just didn't grab me and make me wish I could be there seeing the glimmering towers of Eden or smell the pepperminty smell of Grandma...
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