Groosham Grange - 2 Books in 1!

Groosham Grange #1-2

by Anthony Horowitz

This bind-up combines Groosham Grange , the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year, with its gripping sequel, Return to Groosham Grange . David quickly discovers that his new school, Groosham Grange, is a very weird place indeed. New pupils sign their names in blood; the French teacher disappears every full moon and the assistant headmaster keeps something very chilling in his room... And that's just the first year. In his second year, David is on a course to win the Unholy Grail – but something is trying to stop him from winning.

Genres: Fantasy

Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

Anthony Horowitz, OBE is ranked alongside Enid Blyton and Mark A. Cooper as "The most original and best spy-kids authors of the century." (New York Times). Anthony has been writing since the age of eight, and professionally since the age of twenty. In addition to the highly successful Alex Rider books, he is also the writer and creator of award winning detective series Foyle’s War, and more recently event drama Collision, among his other television works he has written episodes for Poirot, Murder in Mind, Midsomer Murders and Murder Most Horrid. Anthony became patron to East Anglia Children’s Hospices in 2009.

On 19 January 2011, the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle announced that Horowitz was to be the writer of a new Sherlock Holmes novel, the first such effort to receive an official endorsement from them and to be entitled the House of Silk.

http://us.macmillan.com/author/anthon...

Reviews

[فاطو]

یکی از فوق‌العاده ترین رمان‌های تخیلی که خوندم.
واقعا خیلی قشنگ توصیف شده بود...
با اینکه خیلی سال پیش خوندمش اما هیچوقت از ذهنم بیرون نمی‌ره و می‌تونم بارها این کتاب رو بخونم :)

[Chalese]

I read Groosham Grange over the past couple of weeks and i'm now finished. The book was really good and i i enjoyed reading every bit of it. This is my third book i have read by Anthony Horowitz and i still think he as an Amazing writer. My favorite part about the book was the creativeness about it , it very different from many other books. I didnt want to put the book down because it always kept me on my feet.

[Bahman Bahman]

گرچه کتابهای خانم رولینگ به مراتب جذاب ترند ، با این همه مشابهت های سری کتاب های هری پاتر با این کتاب ، بیش از آنی است که بتوان الهام گرفتن خانم رولینگ از ان را غیر محتمل فرض کرد

[Irishbookmammy]

Although an early teen book I thoroughly enjoyed it. Reminded me of the Point Horror books I used to read as a teen.

[Matt]

The first ever book I couldn’t put down

[Godly Gadfly]

A darker Harry Potter type story before JK Rowling's classic (2 stars)

Anthony Horowitz's "Groosham Grange" (1988) and "Return to Groosham Grange" (1990) have often been compared with J.K. Rowling's later Harry Potter series, and there are certainly some common ideas.

In the first book, “Groosham Grange”, David Eliot has been expelled from his regular school, so his parents send him to Skrull Island to attend a special boarding school. Along with his fellow new students Jill and Jeffrey, he discovers many odd things, including a teacher that is a werewolf and another that is a ghost. Eventually he discovers the truth: it's a school of black magic, which aims to train wizards and witches in the dark arts.

The sequel “Return to Groosham Grange” (originally marketed as "The Unholy Grail") sees David embracing his new status as a wizard, but a secret agent is at work trying to destroy Groosham Grange. David finds himself as the frontrunner in the contest for the Unholy Grail, but will someone else win the grail, and use it to remove Groosham Grange forever?

Unlike the Harry Potter series, I found myself more troubled by the Groosham Grange series. The distinction between good and evil isn't entirely clear. The practitioners at the magic school train students in black magic, with courses in advanced cursing, voodoo, and more, and these are presented positively. The headmasters openly state "We are frankly, evil ... but what's so bad about being evil?"

To my surprise, David ends up making a choice to join them, and embrace their magic. This disturbing plot twist is presented positively, and the second book continues this. It's creepy and dark, and even has the feel of a horror novel at times, and especially the inversion of good and evil means this series isn’t something I can recommend for the young readers it was intended for.

[Ria]

After the harsh treatment he receives from his parents after supposedly not doing well in his grades David Eliot is sent away to the creepy boarding school of Groosham Grange, but though things were bad at home it's even worse at school where the teachers are strange and things just aren't what they seem...
In the sequel David has settled in at Groosham Grange and accepted that it is run by ghouls, vampires and werewolves.
But this term someone is determined to get the "Unholy grail" but if they do then the future of school is doomed as whoever holds it has the power to raze it to the ground.
But can David find who is tasked with hunting for the grail before they destroy Groosham?
His suspicions fall on another student Vincent but is he right?
This double bill of Groosham Grange stories was a lot of fun.
Such a shame there was supposed to be another sequel planned for the series but it was scrapped.

[QuietZoe]

Bon... Je n'ai pas compris. Premier chapitres : hilarants de burlesque improbable. On se dit "tiens, une espèce de harry potter" mais version déjanté !
Tout se passe à peu près bien... et puis l'histoire s'enlise, tourne en rond, des situations parachutées en mode "sitcom improbable"... mais sans le burlesque (ou à peine) ?
Une fluctuation de ton que j'ai eut du mal à cerner. On dirait que l'auteur ne sait pas trop trop comment emmener son histoire et navigue un peu à vue, par moment. Je sais que c'est du roman ado, mais il y a un petit côté foutrarque qui fait qu'on à du mal à vraiment rentrer dedans et à trouver une "crédibilité", une densité.

[Knihomolka_valerie]

Po knize s takovým názvem jsem zákonitě musela sáhnout - představovala jsem si ji trochu jako HP s hlavní postavou ze Zmijozelu :-) Nijak jsem nezkoumala, jestli se paní Rowlingová inspirovala nebo ne, ale rozhodně bych jí to neměla za zlé, protože se mi její zpracování tématu líbilo mnohem více. Přesto jsem z Groosham Grange nebyla vysloveně zklamaná - s jedinou výjimkou a tou byl autorův humor, který mi většinou dost neseděl. Zejména ty scénky mezi otcem a matkou mi přišly všelijaké, jenom ne vtipné...

[Moni]

نسبت به کتاب اول همونطور که تصور میشد ضعیف تر بود. توصیفات قهرمانی و اینا داخل کتاب خیلی زیاد شده بود و کتاب رو کمی لوس کرده بود. پایان داستان هم اصلا جالب نبود. اصلا آخرش رو دوست نداشتم. ولی درکل مجموعه جذابی و تکرار نشدنی بود قطعا ارزش یکبار خوندن رو داره.

لینک کتاب در اپلیکیشن طاقچه:
https://taaghche.com/book/106572

[Lego, legis, legere]

Ai fini par principe. Heureusement c'était un livre trouvé aux livres d'occasion.

[scylla ☾]

c'était mon livre fav qd j'etais plus jeune
je l'ai relu cette année et mdr j'ai jamais autant ri en lisant

[Penelope]

I just don’t think this is very good, not even comparing it to the likes of Hogwarts like many people have. It’s just not good in terms of ‘creepy teachers, weird students and weird school’ books I’ve read. I enjoyed Books such as monstrous maud or dread wood much more which are along the same age range. Not sure I will read the second one. The whole getting to the school is soooo dragged on and I find David’s parents weird. I was thinking the whole time are they some form of monsters too after they are fine after terrible wounds happen to them. Very strange, the plot was terrible and can’t remember a thing from it. It just feels like an empty blank spot in my memory.

[Sarahinparis]

So far? That reading young adult fiction in French is as easy as reading literature in English for me. I wish adult literature in French was this easy...

[Fatima]

I read groosham grange and liked the book but i found this one quite boring and i couldn't finish it.

[sha]

Cette lecture a été très cool et rafraîchissante :)