false 45709 9 Jack's best mate, Charlie, has always been effortlessly cool. When Charlie wakes up one day and finds a mysterious, moving black tattoo on his back, it's a clear sign that he's even cooler than Jack thought. To top it off, Charlie is suddenly able to fight like a kung-fu master, fly, and control the minds of others. Yes, he's got <i>super powers.</i><P> Or does he?<P> Jack soon learns the terrifying truth: Charlie's incredible powers come from an age-old demon called the Scourge, who is using Charlie to bring about its evil master plan. To stop the Scourge, Jack and Charlie join forces with Esme, a girl with super powers of her own, trained from birth to fight the demon. But time is running out, as Charlie falls deeper under the Scourge's dark spell. <P> When the Scourge vanishes with Charlie, Jack and Esme follow their friend from the streets of London into Hell itself, where they face horrors that may well cost them their lives. Can they survive to outwit the Scourge, save Charlie, and stop an even greater evil?<P> 3018977 2006 The Black Tattoo total:415|5:78|4:123|3:123|2:58|1:33| 415 1400 656 102 2 2 false false Sat Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 07 10:16:09 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 24 10:17:13 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 22:29:40 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 11:42:06 -0700 2008
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The author’s cast of characters could be any of the teenagers attending y...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 09:41:53 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 09:42:33 -0700 2009 The Black Tattoo. It seems original in its plot twists and turns while at the same time being very derivative. Jack is the most interesting character in his Sam from The Lord of the Rings way.

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Enthoven creates his own quirky world and compliments it with a quirky and ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 09:06:42 -0800 2009 Fri Apr 10 19:14:17 -0700 2009 Great book. It has an unsatisfyingly vague ending, though, and there's one part that w...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 13 19:56:25 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 19:57:07 -0700 2008
Jack Ferrell wishes he would have listened to his instincts, to have made his friend, Charlie, turn away. But since Charlie was already having a bad time, what with his dad leaving, he went along with it.
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The Scourge was trapped on Earth many years ago, and has been waiting to return to Hell so that he can...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Oct 07 16:39:31 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 07 16:40:16 -0700 2007 Black Tattoo by Sam Enthoven is in the style of Garth Nix's Keys to the Kingdom series, although less whimsical. Set in London, Jack's life is absolutely normal. Everything that happens to him is typical, it just figured that it is his cool friend Charlie that gets the magic powers and is going to s...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Dec 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 10:58:33 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 11:01:33 -0800 2008
The plot drags on and on throughout the whole book, without giving you m...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 16 18:34:23 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 23 10:17:52 -0700 2008 Basically, three teens play varying roles in trying to aid/stop the Scourge, an immortal super-baddie trying to bring about the end of creation itself.

Enthoven has some original concepts in Black Tattoo: aforementioned tattoo as a manifestation of demonic possession; Hellish nouri...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 11:49:56 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 11:53:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 10 06:50:36 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 24 08:59:31 -0700 2009
Kid and friends go to Hell, meet demons, save the world.

It was nice to see a strong female character, but the adults were much more interesting to me and only barely in the story. As a YA book, this i...more...]]>