By Ransom Riggs
YA Lit
Hardback 348 pages
This book was one of the choices for World Book Night, so I've been curious about it for a long time and finally put it on hold at the public library. It was strange and interesting. It didn't go the way I expected, which is good, but I also had a problem with the ending. Hmmm. Overall I enjoyed it.
One of the interesting hint about the book is the photographs. They come from collectors and, if I remember correctly, the narrative was woven around or inspired by the pictures. The pictures are weird. Actually, from glancing through the pictures in a bookstore once, I expected this to be a horror story, but it's not. Instead, it is an interesting adventure story.
It starts out pretty horribly, not bad writing- the grandfather of the protagonist is gruesomely murdered. Jacob, the protagonist, is pretty much treated like a mental patient for the next couple chapters. Then, with the support of his therapist, he makes a trip to an island...
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