I wanted to like this book, mostly because of the unique format, which mixes text pages with graphic novel style pages and illustrated pages. But the art styles don't complement each other well -- the graphic novel pages are an anime style, as are some of the illustrated pages, while other illust...
The First Escape is the story of the mischievous twins Saskia and Sadie Dopple and their friend Eric Morrisey Ganger. The twins live at the orphanage-school under the horrible headmaster. But their life is torn apart when Saskia is adopted by a famous author, Muzz Elliott, while Sadie is left at ...
Better than Book 1The Dopple Ganger Chronicles is (currently) a three book series following the troublemaking Dopple twins and their friend Erik on happenstance adventures.I chose these books to read as a part of the Tyndale Summer Reading Program because I was intrigued by the style of the books...
It read alright it had the same Gothic atmosphere and intense action and underlying spiritual truths as Taylor's Shadowmancer but this book didn't really work for me as a continuation. It is a sequel certainly, but it doesn't really have an ending that satisfies both stories. In fact the ending i...
The groans and whispers of sleepers spilled from houses that were cut into the hillside and cluttered one upon the other like a stack of precarious cards. Every now and then a door had been left open, and the glow of the fire came from the room within to light the passageway. The distant figure o...
His face was gripped, then smothered by a stinking leather glove. He tried to scream as he gulped helplessly for breath. ‘Don’t do anything stupid, boy. Me and you need to chat, me and you have unfinished business,’ the man said through a tight black shawl that was wrapped...
Thomas looked to the narrow gap between the buildings and the slither of sky that cut through the rooftops. He could see that the street ran out of sight towards the city. There was little light from the sun; even on this bright morning the oil lamps beckoned them as they walked slowly on through...
It had no silhouette as the moon had set in the sea. The ocean slopped icily against the side of the steamer and the engines churned with the monotonous drone of the paddles. Inside the cabin behind the bridge, Biba DeFeaux stood next to Mariah. She had been found and drag...