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resareads 's review for:
The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone
by Adele Griffin
I was a little tentative to start this one because of all the hype combined with the multimodal approach to the story. Mixed media books can come across a little gimmicky and there has already been a standard of "different" getting praise as avant-garde even when it doesn't deserve the praise.
That is not the case with this book. Griffin, the artists, editors, and anyone else who had a hand in the creation of the book got it right. The mixed media enhances the story in a way pure text would never have managed to match and made what would otherwise have been a slightly boring story compelling.
I'm excited to see if this opens up some new directions in publishing going beyond text to express languages in all the ways we do everyday. But even if that's still a ways off, this is a good example of the way a story can evolve into something else.
That is not the case with this book. Griffin, the artists, editors, and anyone else who had a hand in the creation of the book got it right. The mixed media enhances the story in a way pure text would never have managed to match and made what would otherwise have been a slightly boring story compelling.
I'm excited to see if this opens up some new directions in publishing going beyond text to express languages in all the ways we do everyday. But even if that's still a ways off, this is a good example of the way a story can evolve into something else.