A review by erasmios
Abarat by Clive Barker

3.0

Alice in Wonderland, Spirited Away, His Dark Materials and Coraline are some of my favourite stories that share the same premise: a girl gets lost in a fantastical and scary realm. In Abarat, the protagonist Candy Quackenbush is forced to enter the (fantastical and scary) archipelago of Abarat. There she must try to survive and find her way back home. Although Abarat is aimed at YA readers, I enjoyed it and will likely read the next one too.