When I first began this book, I didn't know what to think. Sometimes, I thought Funke tried to hard for beautiful, poetic writing and that everything was rushed and I was going to write a whole lot about the flaws of this book.And then I decided I didn't want to nitpick it anymore. Funke has a bri...
It's the mirror Jacob lost his father in, and the one he has been using to escape to the magical world Schwanstein ever since he was a child. It's a world of dangers, of magic, and of treasure, but most of all, it's his secret. That is, until twelve years later, when his brother steps through and st...
As a reader I tend to vary my reading widely. I'll read what is classed as young adult fiction but at the same time I may be reading a typically adult science fiction. Maybe I might read a gothic horror classic like Frankenstein and still have a dog-eared copy of The Lord of the Rings open by my bed...
I would say it's targeted more for the 9-12 age range and her use of similes drove me crazy for a while but as I got into the book I forgot about it.It follows a young man whose father disappears and he finds a hidden world living his younger brother to deal with the trauma in this world. It jumps s...
It's more like 3 and a half stars. I think the basic idea is awesome, and I really enjoyed large parts of the books...but the ending ruined it all a bit. It somehow seemed as if she only remembered 20-30 pages before the end that she also wants to write a sequel to it...it's hard to put in words. It...
I picked this book up at ALA 10 for my ten-year-old daughter. I got it signed for her and everything. She loved the Inkheart series and was really excited to start reading it, but after about 15 pages, she brought it to me and said, "I don't understand what's happening, this book makes no sense." ...
The exposition is a bit jerky, jumping between perspectives and characters too quickly to allow the reader to really get pulled into the story as early as I would have liked. Once the initial setup is complete, however, Reckless is a smooth, well-written—and well-translated—ride. It’s most-exciting ...
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