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Heap House
by Edward Carey
A brilliantly enjoyable novel with a hilarious bunch of characters!
- This is the first book in the Iremonger series, I had not heard of it until I went to the Hot Key Books blogger brunch a couple of weeks ago where it was raved about. I was generously given a copy on the day and couldn't wait to get it home to read!
- We follow the main protagonist Clod Iremonger, he lives with his family in the massive heaps of rubbish that surround London. The Iremonger family reside over the heaps and have even built their home from the rubbish found within the hulking masses of waste sent through from London. When a new Iremonger is born they are given something known as a 'birth object' - this is something that they usually keep with them at all times and it tends to reflect aspects of their personalities. Clod's birth object is a plug that he keeps on a chain like a stopwatch. Life seems to be all hunky-dory until Clod begins to hear everyone's birth objects speaking - the objects are saying names to him. This sets Clod off on a mission to uncover the secrets of the Iremonger family. With the help of a newly appointed housemaid named Lucy, Clod digs and digs until the truth comes out - will he like what he discovers?
- This was such a unique novel, the strange austerity of the Iremonger family and the pure gumption of Clod and Lucy was a site to behold! I found myself completely taken with Clod as a protagonist, his naivety yet determination to uncover the truth was so heart-warming and I hope to see a lot more of him in the following novels! The way the characters interact with each other in this story is unlike anything I've ever read before, it was almost as if the characters didn't want to be speaking to each other at all (this is an inadequate description but you'll see what I mean if you read it!) - either way the writing style was one of my favourite aspects of the novel.
- I would liken this novel to that of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events or anything by Phillip Ardargh. Not only was the novel darkly witty but there was also a wonderful underlying tone of discovery and truth.
- I would recommend this to everyone! If you share a love of eerie and darkly humorous characters I'm sure you would enjoy this novel. 4.5 out of 5 stars! Can't wait to get my hands on book number two!
- This is the first book in the Iremonger series, I had not heard of it until I went to the Hot Key Books blogger brunch a couple of weeks ago where it was raved about. I was generously given a copy on the day and couldn't wait to get it home to read!
- We follow the main protagonist Clod Iremonger, he lives with his family in the massive heaps of rubbish that surround London. The Iremonger family reside over the heaps and have even built their home from the rubbish found within the hulking masses of waste sent through from London. When a new Iremonger is born they are given something known as a 'birth object' - this is something that they usually keep with them at all times and it tends to reflect aspects of their personalities. Clod's birth object is a plug that he keeps on a chain like a stopwatch. Life seems to be all hunky-dory until Clod begins to hear everyone's birth objects speaking - the objects are saying names to him. This sets Clod off on a mission to uncover the secrets of the Iremonger family. With the help of a newly appointed housemaid named Lucy, Clod digs and digs until the truth comes out - will he like what he discovers?
- This was such a unique novel, the strange austerity of the Iremonger family and the pure gumption of Clod and Lucy was a site to behold! I found myself completely taken with Clod as a protagonist, his naivety yet determination to uncover the truth was so heart-warming and I hope to see a lot more of him in the following novels! The way the characters interact with each other in this story is unlike anything I've ever read before, it was almost as if the characters didn't want to be speaking to each other at all (this is an inadequate description but you'll see what I mean if you read it!) - either way the writing style was one of my favourite aspects of the novel.
- I would liken this novel to that of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events or anything by Phillip Ardargh. Not only was the novel darkly witty but there was also a wonderful underlying tone of discovery and truth.
- I would recommend this to everyone! If you share a love of eerie and darkly humorous characters I'm sure you would enjoy this novel. 4.5 out of 5 stars! Can't wait to get my hands on book number two!