A review by vacanthungarian
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner

adventurous challenging lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

Ok... So to start off, there's a vary weird use of language here. For about half of the book, I was fairly certain that Treacle Walker just spoke absolute nonsense. It's like a weird amalgamation of something that Dr. Seuss conjured up, which was then edited by Keller in Keller's happy campers and then finally seasoned by Terry Pratchett for good measure. The action scenes were bewildering and a little hard to fully comprehend, so I'm afraid I have no idea of what was going on for a solid 30 pages. It's a little bit like listening to an over excited toddler tell a story of something that happened at nursery. However, the book suddenly comes together at the end, it all makes perfect sense and you feel at peace with what you just read. It somehow feels like this was not entirely by accident.