We’re going on an adventure.

45. Darkside – Tom Becker

China Mieville for the younger set, like, age 10ish. So there are slightly less characters with strange affects to keep track of. Slightly less. But we’re still in bizarro-London with bizarro-London old timey gangsters, in this case bounty hunters more specifically.

This is the beginning of a series and it is quite obvious based on the amount of “you have a lot to learn” sort of statements said to main character Jonathan by various persons. And the set up of the villain, who was also in charge of SIU for the police, but now is just a super-rich vampire I guess. Partially injured, probably about to be very angry at his maid. Also, like nothing is truly summed up or ended, so…the beginning of a middle grade series.

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If Belvedere can just find his way under the right stuffed animal, his can follow his little nose to any number of bizarro worlds.