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callmecat's review against another edition
5.0
Tom is a great main character. It was so much fun to read this. I can imagine reading this to my kids some day :) It's so cute!
justicepirate's review against another edition
3.0
3.25 stars
I read this to my sons and they really thought it to be highly adventurous and exciting. I really enjoyed reading it too. It was cute.
Tom Trueheart has 6 older brothers, all with names that have "Jack" intertwined. His brothers are adventurers. The Story Bureau writes tales that the brothers need to live out in some way to make sure they get completed in order to become renown. They will have to fight villains, rescue princesses, and live happily ever after.
Tom is about to turn 12 and wants to begin training for his own adventures. The only problem is that his brothers have not returned home yet. This means that something has gone wrong. Only Tom is able to save them. He sets out to find them.
There are fairytales that are well known and loved that are played out in this story, but the story gives you a background of what was going on in between the well known scenes (hehe).
I read this to my sons and they really thought it to be highly adventurous and exciting. I really enjoyed reading it too. It was cute.
Tom Trueheart has 6 older brothers, all with names that have "Jack" intertwined. His brothers are adventurers. The Story Bureau writes tales that the brothers need to live out in some way to make sure they get completed in order to become renown. They will have to fight villains, rescue princesses, and live happily ever after.
Tom is about to turn 12 and wants to begin training for his own adventures. The only problem is that his brothers have not returned home yet. This means that something has gone wrong. Only Tom is able to save them. He sets out to find them.
There are fairytales that are well known and loved that are played out in this story, but the story gives you a background of what was going on in between the well known scenes (hehe).
erinmp's review against another edition
3.0
Tom Trueheart is the baby of the family. His six older brothers are exactly like their father--true adventurers whose job it is to find endings for the stories that the Story Bureau assigns them. Tom, however, is not an adeventurer. He stays and home with his mother and dreams of one day following in his family's footsteps. But then all of his brothers fail to return from their adventures and the Story Bureau knows something is very, very wrong. With only one Trueheart left, it is up to Tom to go after them and rescue his family. But how will this twelve-year-old never-trained wanna-be adventurer do it?
Cute, inventive and imaginative. Fun story that gives background to classic fairy tales. I liked the premise that the Story Bureau thinks up the story idea and leaves it up to the adventurer to execute. And the actors in the stories are pretty amusing. There will definitely be a sequel, as the last chapter perfectly set it up.
Cute, inventive and imaginative. Fun story that gives background to classic fairy tales. I liked the premise that the Story Bureau thinks up the story idea and leaves it up to the adventurer to execute. And the actors in the stories are pretty amusing. There will definitely be a sequel, as the last chapter perfectly set it up.
tweedledelirium's review against another edition
3.0
This was a really fun read, and I loved the concept. I was fascinated by the way that all the fairy tales become interconnected and the idea that people are assigned roles in certain stories. Seeing as how this is Mr. Beck's first novel, I hope it's not his last - this book was perfectly set up for a sequel, and I, for one, will be looking forward to it.
eirenophile's review against another edition
3.0
Listened to this one to go to sleep this week. Good narration and the story was compelling enough, though I don't think I liked it enough to read the next ones in the series.
mariko88's review against another edition
3.0
Una bella favola.
Tom Trueheart e i suoi sei fratelli sono gli eroi che nel mondo delle storie devono portare a termine tutte le favole. Tom però è ancora un quasi dodicenne e può solo aspettare a casa il ritorno dei suoi eroici fratelli (tutti con nome simile a Jack) e i racconti delle loro storie. Ma cosa succede se alla vigilia del dodicesimo compleanno di Tom nessuno dei suoi fratelli ha fatto ritorno? Tom verrà incaricato di andare a trarli in salvo e si imbatterà nelle favole incompiute di Biancaneve, Cenerentola, Raperonzolo, il principe ranocchio, la bella addormentata e Jack e il fagiolo magico, con principesse abbandonate ansiose di essere salvate e un crudele sceneggiatore che vuole vendicarsi dei Truheart...
E' decisamente aperta la porta ad un seguito.
1 giu 2010, 11:11:33
Tom Trueheart e i suoi sei fratelli sono gli eroi che nel mondo delle storie devono portare a termine tutte le favole. Tom però è ancora un quasi dodicenne e può solo aspettare a casa il ritorno dei suoi eroici fratelli (tutti con nome simile a Jack) e i racconti delle loro storie. Ma cosa succede se alla vigilia del dodicesimo compleanno di Tom nessuno dei suoi fratelli ha fatto ritorno? Tom verrà incaricato di andare a trarli in salvo e si imbatterà nelle favole incompiute di Biancaneve, Cenerentola, Raperonzolo, il principe ranocchio, la bella addormentata e Jack e il fagiolo magico, con principesse abbandonate ansiose di essere salvate e un crudele sceneggiatore che vuole vendicarsi dei Truheart...
E' decisamente aperta la porta ad un seguito.
1 giu 2010, 11:11:33
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