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review 2018-08-11 00:00

Nightmares!

SabrinaReads

4.25

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review 2017-10-12 00:00

Otherworld

Books Less Travelled

*I received this book from BloggingForBooks for review. This does not affect my review.*

I have seen this book around and jumped at the chance to read it. Going in, the only thing I know was that it was about a game that was immersive and that by playing called for you to leave your body and the real world behind. I loved the parts of the story that was in the game. Fun and unpredictable, they were well written and made reading the book fly by. The real world parts were a bit slower but still thrilling. I enjoyed the intrigue and struggles of the real world added in. It was a bit more political than I normally read, but the overall story was written in a way that kept me reading.

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review 2016-11-04 23:12

[Rezension] Jason Segel / Kirsten Miller - Nightmares! Die Schrecken der Nacht (Band 1)

MissRose´s Bücherwelt

Nightmares! - Die Schrecken der Nacht: Band 1 - Jason Segel,Kirsten Miller

Beschreibung:

Schlafe, Charlie, schlaf ruhig ein, im Traum wird es noch schlimmer sein à Kalter Kaffee, Unmengen Wasser, Klebeband zum Augenaufhalten: Der zwölfjährige Charlie versucht alles, um bloß nicht einzuschlafen. Seit er in der Villa seiner neuen Stiefmutter lebt, wird er Nacht für Nacht von absolut gruseligen Albträumen heimgesucht. Aber warum wirken die Monster und Ungeheuer soviel echter als andere Träume? Charlie muss sich etwas einfallen lassen, wenn er jemals wieder ruhig schlafen will.

Das erste Buch von Hollywood-Liebling und Muppets-Autor Jason Segel - bekannt aus How I Met Your Mother - als Auftakt einer Trilogie voller subtilem Grusel und viel Spaß.

Perfekt für alle ab 10 Jahren: witzig, fantastisch und doch aus dem Kinderleben gegriffen.

Details:

Gebundene Ausgabe: 384 Seiten

Verlag: Dressler (13. November 2014)

Sprache: Deutsch

ISBN-10: 3791519085

ISBN-13: 978-3791519081

Vom Hersteller empfohlenes Alter: 10 - 12 Jahre

Teil einer Reihe: Ja, Band 1 der Nightmares! - Reihe

Eigene Meinung:

Nightmares! Die Schrecken der Nacht ist alleine schon durch das Cover ein Hingucker, man findet viele kleine Bildelemente, die den Blick immer wieder ablenken. Das Cover passt auch gut zu der Geschichte um Charlie, weil auch Charlie immer wieder durch Details und Momente abgelenkt wird.

Besonders an den Cover ist, dass es im Dunkeln leuchtet, was man bei Cover ja nicht wirklich oft hat.

Charlie ist an sich ein normaler Junge, nur ist in seinem Leben vieles anders als in den Leben von anderen 12 Jährigen. Charlie ist aber durch den Tot seiner Mutter und der Trauerverarbeitung sehr in sich gekehrt, gleichzeitig trägt er aber eine riesengrosse Wut in sich, weil er einfach nicht verstehen kann, warum gerade seine Mutter so früh gehen musst. Gleichzeitig muss sich Charlie immer in den Nächten seinen größten Ängsten stellen, weswegen er versucht, nie zu schlafen, was natürlich nicht geht, weil ihn der Schlaf immer wieder einholt.

Da Charlie den Schlaf nicht umgehen kann, versucht er mit Hilfe seiner Freunde, diese Albträume zu besiegen, was dann eine wirklich spannende Geschichte ins Rollen bringt...

384 Seiten erscheinen am Anfang für das vom Verlag vorgeschlagene Lesealter wirklich viel, aber die Seiten fliegen nur so dahin, weil man immer und immer wieder wirklich gruselige Momente hat, aber auf der anderen Seite gibt es die Momente, wo man nur schmunzeln kann, weil dann die Spannung immer wieder etwas abflacht.

Der Schreibstil von Jason Segel und Kirsten Miller ist wirklich schön, er liest sich sehr gut und ist auch zu keinem Moment langweilig, auch wenn man dann sagen muss, dass es für ein Kinderbuch ab 10 Jahren schon etwas komplex ist, was aber nicht zuletzt an dem komplexen Umfeld der Geschichten liegt.

Fazit:

Nightmares! Die Schrecken der Nacht ist ein Gruselspass für Jung und Alt, auch wenn das Alter des Verlages von 10 - 12 Jahren reicht, kann man das auch auch eindeutig in älteren Jahren lesen, weil der Nervenkitzel bleibt immer gleich, weil man Charlie wirklich ins Herz schliesst und gleichzeitig nicht wirklich versteht, was immer mit ihm passiert und wie er in den Strudel aus Ereignissen gekommen ist.

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review 2016-10-27 21:33

Nightmares! Series

Laine The Librarian

Nightmares! - Jason Segel,Karl Kwasny,Kirsten Miller

Nightmares! The Sleepwalker Tonic - Jason Segel,Kirsten Miller,Karl Kwasny

Nightmares! The Lost Lullaby - Jason Segel,Kirsten Miller,Karl Kwasny

Book One

Nightmares is something everyone has had. Whether you are young or old, you once had a nightmare that you just couldn't shake off. Sometimes it's just the one nightmare, sometimes it's a trilogy. Sometimes, however, it stays with you for days, weeks, even months. You are either falling into a dark abyss; a clown is chasing you; failing a test that is coming up. But the main thing to remember is that these are just nightmares.....they only occur during the night, during sleep. Once you wake up, those nightmares are gone.

Or so Charlie Laird believed so.

Charlie believed like everyone else, that nightmares aren't real, and that they only occur during sleep time. That is until he started having the same dream over and over again ever since moving into the purple mansion which he believes have caused the nightmares to escalate.

Of course everyone assures him that the nightmares aren't real.

That is until a nightmare started walking around town....in broad daylight!!!!

Charlie and his friends found something very unusual in the Purple Mansion.....a gateway into the Netherworld....a gateway into Nightmares. Every nightmare Charlie's town has ever had or has now, Charlie and his friends are walking in them. Trying to figure out how a Nightmare got through the gateway and into Reality while also trying to figure out how to get out of the nightmares that seem to have plagued the town.

How can you get out of your nightmare when your nightmare won't let go of you? How do you win in a Nightmare?

Jason Segel shows you how with the help of Charlie and his friends. A wonderful, helpful story for kids and yes even adults who have terrible Nightmare that they just can't shake off.

Book Two

"Go to sleep my baby rock-a-by
Mama's gonna sing you a lullaby
All about the angels that watch over thee
Go to sleep sweetie and dream in peace."

This is normally how most people get their kids to sleep. They sing a little lullaby, they rock the baby's in their arms, they read a story....whatever it takes to get their children to sleep.

That is until the children and the adults start seeing eyes in their dreams that have turned into nightmares?

And what if all those great techniques, don't work anymore? How are you going to get your child to sleep when even you yourself can't sleep? And what if you do start sleeping and those eyes.......

Well then try out this new tonic from the next town over. You will feel wonderful trust us!!! You will be able to never dream of those eyes ever again!!!! (Of course, you will NEVER dream again and you will turn into a Zombie which is sort of the point)

Charlie and his friends are at it again, trying to save a town from Nightmares....but this time the nightmare isn't from the Gateway. It's mixed in a Tonic that the people have been drinking and can't seem to come out of their Zombie phase.

How do you wake people up when they are too afraid of the Reality? How do you stop something when you can't feel it?

Book Three

STAY TUNED FOR REVIEW ON BOOK THREE

dreams nightmares conquer jason segel

Source: www.goodreads.com/series/143502-nightmares

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text 2016-08-18 12:38

Somebody Stop Me...

The Caffeinated Bibliophile

The 78-Storey Treehouse - Andy Griffiths,Stig Wemyss,Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

I'm beginning to think I need rehab, but for books. I keep telling myself that I won't buy any more, but then I find something that I 'really need' or that my girls 'really need' and before I blink I'm through the checkout and out the door with the books in hand...

Today was again one of those days, this time I've managed to pass of today's haul off as being super prepared for Christmas, but that still doesn't solve my lack of book shelf space... nor find homes for the stacks of books currently taking over my coffee table. So Santa, if you're watching, I'd love some book cases this year, even if I have been a little wicked as far as my books are concerned.

(ETA side note: the 78 Storey Treehouse is the paperback version by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton, not the audiobook version that Booklikes linked here... I'll change that when I get a chance)

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