by Chris Wooding, Cassandra Diaz (Illustrator)
I didn't enjoy it as much as Tash did, but I did like the slightly-creepy-not-too-creepy world. And of course I would love to be able to fly.Library copy.
I don't know what I loved more: the dark and stylish world, the enthusiastically evil characters, the bright and sarcastic protagonist or the fact that no one takes themselves or their world too seriously. It also has characters with names like Queen Euthanasia Pandemonium and Tombchewer, which I th...
I bought this book on a whim and expected to get about half an hour's worth of entertainment from it. It's so much better than that though. The dialogue is witty and goes well with the art style, which, by the way, is gorgeous. The plot takes the old "prince and pauper" storyline and gives it an exc...
Maybe I didn't look in the right place, but I haven't been able to find any confirmation on Chris Wooding's site that Pandemonium is the first volume of a series. [This was written before a comment on my blog pointed me towards info confirming that this was intended to be the first volume of a serie...