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I read Runcible Jones: Gate to Nowhere back-to-back with Jenny Nimmo's Charlie Bone and the Hidden King.
These two books are so stylistically similar they are not quite clones but certainly closer than cousins—literary half-siblings, perhaps.
Highly improbable plots with melodramatic overtones, landscapes partly Dickensian, partly Rowlingsian and partly golden age science fiction, character line-ups peopled by angst-ridden orphans, feisty female sidekicks and villains almost slapstick in their pe ...more
These two books are so stylistically similar they are not quite clones but certainly closer than cousins—literary half-siblings, perhaps.
Highly improbable plots with melodramatic overtones, landscapes partly Dickensian, partly Rowlingsian and partly golden age science fiction, character line-ups peopled by angst-ridden orphans, feisty female sidekicks and villains almost slapstick in their pe ...more
Apr 18, 2013
Blue Eyed Vixen
marked it as to-read
