The Spell Book of Listen Taylor
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781281731647 (1281731641)
Publish date: January 1st 2011
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Pages no: 492
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Magic,
Teen,
Novels,
Humor,
Adult,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
Full review here on TotalTeenFictionThis book tells the story of several characters - Listen and her dad, her dad's new girlfriend Marbie, Marbie's sister Fancy and her daughter Cassie, and Cassie's schoolteacher Cath. Listen's story focusses on her starting year 7 and the ups and downs that brings....
I was expecting YA fantasy but got something closer to chick-lit: a bunch of related women's points of view and thoughts (mostly about relationships). I enjoyed Moriarty's writing, which is often original and funny, but was bothered by other facets of the book, such as the omnipresence of infidelity...
Inspite of Jaclyn Moriarty's funky, insightful and sometimes extremely funny writing style, "The Spell Book of Listen Taylor" is in essence a rather depressing book: It tells the cleverly intertwined stories of three women having each an affair and one 12-years-old girl - the one and only Alissa "Li...
Updated review, 06/2012:OK I still really, really love this book. I mean, it's a little twee and cloying in places. As a stylistic choice it didn't turn me off, but I get that this is a book you either immediately love or hate. So many italics and !'s. And the characters all have personalities that,...
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