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Oct 24, 2012
Cora
rated it
it was amazing
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fantasy,
library,
world-war-ii,
favorites,
war,
folklore,
fairy-tales,
horror,
coming-of-age,
england
Set outside London during the Blitz, David is a young boy dealing with the grief of his mother passing away and the unwanted reality that his father has remarried and he now has a new half-brother. David retreats to reading the books he and his mother loved. When his father meets Rose, David starts having unexplained black outs where he dreams of a world far away and he starts hearing the book talk. One day, David hears his mother's voice calling him. He follows the voice into a world out of the
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Loved it.
Long read and with the exception with a few passages, it was just a tiring read. The books of course was my favorite part. How they talked and whispered and knew things. It was interesting how our childhood fairy tales were interpreted and written to create a horrible and frightening other world. Like others I found the dwarfs refreshing in a rather depressing story.
Jun 18, 2008
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Amelia
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