...Wow... These reviews are intimidating, they're so mature...This is a great book. The description is well done, the characters are great, location, etcetera.I'm going to try and not rave about the book entirely, so here's a downside.Sometimes the plot can get somewhat confusing, and I'm pretty ...
Self-aware from the opening endpages to its closing endpages, Rex’s second volume of Frankensteinian verse is simultaneously the gift and the curse--a paean to the horror fiction of the past two centuries as well as a lyrical skewering of it. Because of the rather broad body of work to which it a...
Almost as much fun as the first one. I laughed out loud when I read it, and I have to give 4 stars for that. It's especially good for reading out loud, the rhymes make more sense and it sounds funnier. It was very clever, but the first one in the series stuck with me more. My kids are still singi...
Part of my personal Adam Rex festival.The quiet blue and brown opening spreads and the hyper-realistically drawn characters set the reader up beautifully for the surprising and magical events ahead.Favorite line: "It doesn't belong in our backyard," said Mom. "And I could do without the dogs."Th...
Scott, short for Scottish Play Doe, his father John Doe, stage name Reggie Dwight, his sister and friends, which consist of a leprechaun, a pooka, a pixie prince, time traveler Merle Lynn, and a fire-breathing finch fight valiantly against the forces of the Good and Harmless Freeman of America, a...