Far Far Away
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780857551269 (0857551264)
Publish date: July 4th 2013
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Teen,
Paranormal,
Middle Grade,
Mystery,
Fairy Tales,
Horror,
Supernatural,
Ghosts
*Book source ~ NetGalley Jeremy Johnson Johnson of Never Better can hear voices and ever since he made the announcement as a child the townspeople have treated him like crap which got worse after his mother skipped town and his father became a recluse. But Jeremy usually doesn’t let it get him dow...
I first read Far Far Away last year as an ARC, but at the time I wasn't able to figure out how I felt about it. When I stumbled across an audio book of it last week, I decided to give it another shot. See, I love fairy tales. Specifically the older ones that weren't afraid of a little darkness. Ther...
I didn't really dig this for the first 200 or so pages, and then I liked it for the last part.
Jeremy Johnson Johnson (so named because his parents both had the last name of Johnson BEFORE they got married) is a quiet outcast who lives above the town bookstore with his father. An adventurous young girl named Ginger takes an interest in Jeremy. Together they cause some mischief and grow close...
I didn't realize until I looked at the list of other books by Tom McNeal that I've actually read him before. I read his literary novel for adults, "Goodnight, Nebraska," when I was in college. And I think remembering that tainted my experience of this novel somewhat, because I noticed that some of t...