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melstern's review
4.0
I'm just not sure how to feel about this book as I sit here trying to determine what rating I want to give. It was everything that I was looking for when I picked it up: light-hearted, whimsical, a little serious, a little silly. All in all, it was pretty entertaining, and I absolutely loved the underlying theme (moral?) of having faith in yourself above all else. My inner child positively adored it!!
I did have a couple of problems with the story. It seemed sort of disjointed in some places to me, and I felt like there were some holes in places -like where did the serial killer and victims come from, in the middle of this storm? The ending of the book also kind of felt a little bit rushed to me - it certainly did not match the overall tone of the rest of the book. That said, these things really don't take away from the story all that much - I'm just picky, I think.
I'm gonna leave you with what may be my favorite part of the whole book. It is an absolutely PERFECT way to illustrate for you the fun, silly tone of the whole book :
They walked on till there was a door marked DO NOT ENTER. That was just asking for it, Spiro believed. Nobody told him what to do, so he entered. A large unruly behemoth — which is similar to a woolly-mammoth moth — resided on the other side, and it had a man-sized appetite. He was a man about the size of a man, so it ate him.
I did have a couple of problems with the story. It seemed sort of disjointed in some places to me, and I felt like there were some holes in places -like where did the serial killer and victims come from, in the middle of this storm? The ending of the book also kind of felt a little bit rushed to me - it certainly did not match the overall tone of the rest of the book. That said, these things really don't take away from the story all that much - I'm just picky, I think.
I'm gonna leave you with what may be my favorite part of the whole book. It is an absolutely PERFECT way to illustrate for you the fun, silly tone of the whole book :
They walked on till there was a door marked DO NOT ENTER. That was just asking for it, Spiro believed. Nobody told him what to do, so he entered. A large unruly behemoth — which is similar to a woolly-mammoth moth — resided on the other side, and it had a man-sized appetite. He was a man about the size of a man, so it ate him.
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