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shutupnread's review
2.0
Based on the summary alone, I thought Isis was going to be an amazing book. Sadly, I was wrong. Okay, it wasn't horrible or anything but I had expected some few hundred pages of reading directed to the young adult audience. However, the whole writing style and everything was directed to the middle grade people and it was an incredibly short novel. I mean, there was even pictures. I haven't read a book with pictures for the longest time.
The plot itself was fine but I kind of wished that something more happened. It seemed like things went by too quickly for me to register and before I realize it, the book is done, finished. I liked the whole idea of "communicating" with the dead and having the ability to raise them from the dead but, like I said, everything happened too fast and I really didn't have much time to digest exactly what was going on before I got to the last page and went like: huh?
Iris was an interesting protagonist. I felt like she was a sweet little girl but there were definitely times when I felt like she was mad as in, crazy in the head. And the whole sisterly brotherly love she had with her brother, Harvey, seemed really eerie and wrong like...it was MORE than just a simple sibling love. After he died, she was like: I can't live without him, omg, my heart is gone, blah blah blah. It was kind of strange really. I mean, I would be sad if my sisters died or something but I definitely wouldn't go overboard with my depression. If it was her lover, then, yea, okay but he's her brother. There's no need to be that intense.
Overall though, Isis was an incredibly short read so if you just want to sit down for an hour or so, just read this book then.
The plot itself was fine but I kind of wished that something more happened. It seemed like things went by too quickly for me to register and before I realize it, the book is done, finished. I liked the whole idea of "communicating" with the dead and having the ability to raise them from the dead but, like I said, everything happened too fast and I really didn't have much time to digest exactly what was going on before I got to the last page and went like: huh?
Iris was an interesting protagonist. I felt like she was a sweet little girl but there were definitely times when I felt like she was mad as in, crazy in the head. And the whole sisterly brotherly love she had with her brother, Harvey, seemed really eerie and wrong like...it was MORE than just a simple sibling love. After he died, she was like: I can't live without him, omg, my heart is gone, blah blah blah. It was kind of strange really. I mean, I would be sad if my sisters died or something but I definitely wouldn't go overboard with my depression. If it was her lover, then, yea, okay but he's her brother. There's no need to be that intense.
Overall though, Isis was an incredibly short read so if you just want to sit down for an hour or so, just read this book then.
debshelf's review
5.0
I saw this little book at Powell’s last winter and immediately had to buy multiple copies. It’s a gothic tale in the same vein as Jane Eyre or any of Poe’s short stories, with a set of amazing illustrations.
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