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msjoanna 's review for:
City of the Beasts
by Isabel Allende
Engaging, but not as good as I was hoping. The author had some cool ideas for this story, but the characters were largely two-dimensional and the descriptions of the fantasy elements often felt rushed. Still, I stayed up extra late last night to finish it. I wonder if something was lost in translation here. I've been wanting to read something by this author, but I probably should have just gone forward with one of her adult books rather than looking at this one. I'd hoped this might be one that I could read with my son, but I think it's a bit too mature for a seven year old, even one who enjoyed Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. I don't own a copy of the second book of the series, but I might pick it up if I happen to see it at the library some time.