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A review by maribeaux
Ask the Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World by Various, Various
3.0
The illustrations were very well-drawn especially the eyes of the characters which made their facial expressions more realistic.
You can't call this a collection of stories "from around the world" however when the author mentions stories from the US every twenty pages. Some countries are repeated more than three times. Where is Africa and the rest of Asia and Europe for example?
As for the stories themselves, they were fully developed but some failed to put me into their atmosphere and the content bored me. Scary stories also tend to have no happy endings and most of them in this work did, giving it the nature of a collection of fairy-tales rather, which is something I did not expect and like.
You can't call this a collection of stories "from around the world" however when the author mentions stories from the US every twenty pages. Some countries are repeated more than three times. Where is Africa and the rest of Asia and Europe for example?
As for the stories themselves, they were fully developed but some failed to put me into their atmosphere and the content bored me. Scary stories also tend to have no happy endings and most of them in this work did, giving it the nature of a collection of fairy-tales rather, which is something I did not expect and like.