This was an airplane book for me, and for that purpose it was a fine one: a quickly paced adventure story, reminiscent of Stevenson or Dickens. In the end, I felt it strained credibility and toed the absurd much more than I care for, & of course my most common complaint of ultimately flat characters...
set in america in some unnamed time that feels... victorian? it definitely feels british. but it's not. kept expecting magic to happen. but it didn't. it's a finely told story of an orphan. things get more and more absurd and violent the longer the book goes on, and each episode/adventure hints at a...
set in america in some unnamed time that feels... victorian? it definitely feels british. but it's not. kept expecting magic to happen. but it didn't. it's a finely told story of an orphan. things get more and more absurd and violent the longer the book goes on, and each episode/adventure hints at a...
This was a random pick from the library because the cover caught my eye. I'm glad it did — Hannah Tinti's debut novel is very readable, and superior to most YA fiction, but part of its problem is that the author couldn't seem to quite decide whether this was YA or not. You will see a lot of reviewer...
Finishing this book has left me in quite a predicament. I feel the need to write a review for this book even though it didn’t particularly leave me feeling anything but ‘meh’. If I were more invested in this type of story, I’d say that this book offended me with all the ways that the characters and ...
What an unusual tale; a real page-turner written by a talented storyteller. Tinti's descriptions were so vivid, I swear I could smell the boys' room at Saint Anthony's. And how surprising to find myself rooting for Ren, a one-handed liar and thief who, by most standards, is not a "good" kid. Perhaps...
This is a story you can really get lost in. I love how it makes you think and you can see how it's played out in your head.I did not see it ending the way it did though.
Definitely a young adult novel, although not billed as such. This is like a cross between a Charles Dickens hard luck tale and a Stephen King creepfest. There's a chunk in the middle where it dwells too long on the grave-robbing antics, but otherwise it's quite entertaining. Worth reading just for...
My 11 year old and I both listened to this book and very quickly he out stripped me and finished the book a good week or so before I did. Quite frankly, if he hadn't pushed I don't I would have finished listening to it - mainly because the narrator drove me a bit nuts. I did get caught up in the sto...
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