About this title: From the co-creator of the bestselling Spiderwick Chronicles comes this unique gothic fantasy. "Tripping the dark fantastic with newcomer Holly Black means pixie dust may well include blood spatter, sharp thorns, and bits of broken glass."--"Publishers Weekly," starred review.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780689867040ISBN:0689867042
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Description: Reader copy. Ex-Public Library. Crease in spine. Covers show some wear. Usual library stickers and stamps. Save a tree-buy used.. read more
Description: Good. Ex-Public Library. COVERS AND PAGE CORNERS SHOW SOME WEAR. COCKED SPINE. Usual library stamps and stickers. SAVE A TREE-BUY USED. ! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780689867040ISBN:0689867042
Description: Poor. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 331 p. Audience: Children/juvenile; Young adult. Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms--a struggle that could very ... read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: SIMON PULSE
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780689867040ISBN:0689867042
Description: From the co-creator of the bestselling Spiderwick Chronicles comes this unique gothic fantasy. "Tripping the dark fantastic with newcomer Holly Black means pixie dust may well include blood spatter, sharp thorns, and bits of broken glass. "--"Publishe... read more
"I ended up reading this book by accident. It was recommended to my 14 year old, Gini. She began the book and then brought it to me saying that she didn't feel it was appropriate for kids and that she, personally, had no interest in a heroine who consistently made such poor life choices. Well! I decided to read it to see what the deal was. This book was recommended for kids 14 and up and Gini has read books that were definitely adult reading level and she LOVES faery.
The problem with this book for Gini (and I am proud of her for it) is that the girl, Kaye, who is the main character, as well as her friends, smoke, drink, sneak around, fool around, and generally make all the choices that parents hope their children will avoid. Gini loves books and movies with really strong female characters. Ultraviolet, Alias, Charmed, Dragonlance, Bones and Sarah Connor Chronicles are some of her favorites. She just really didn't like the idea that a 16 year old who was so "messed up" and misguided would be turned into a heroine of faery. She appreciates that the best heroines have flaws to overcome but this just didn't work for her.
Now! All that that being said, I finished the book and for an adult with the grace of age and perspective, this book is a fun, light read. This poor kid who has pretty much raised herself and her mother could very well end up the same dead-end mess that her mother has but she doesn't. She discovers something very special within herself. She ends up showing a lot of character and courage. The teens dealt with in the book are not the teens that I have guided my girls to become or to identify with but those kids are out there and they have the same potential and beauty within them. It was really cool to talk to Gini about why she didn't like this character and how the character developed without requiring her to read something she objected to and without glorifying the type of kid portrayed in the book.
This is just my opinion folks so take it for what it is worth to you! I would not have this book in the hands of anyone under 16 and even at 16, my girls would probably not read this type of material if for no other reason than the frequency of the "f" word which we don't appreciate in our home, hearts or heads and the underage drinking and sexuality. But if you do have a child who wants to read it and you don't like to censor your child's reading (and I do very little of that, believe it or not - I teach them the principles and let them apply them, which Gini did very well) then this book is a good opportunity to talk about the choices the kids in the book make. Why it may or may not be a good idea for an author to portray a young person with such poor judgement as a hero or heroine (I thought it was a great idea!) and how people can turn their lives around no matter how dismal and dead-end they seem to be."
"I wanted to read this book from some early reviews I had seen, and I absolutely loved the cover. I got it from the library, and started reading, and honestly wanted to put it back down. After reading the "F word" about 5 times in the first couple of chapters, and the main character, (a teenager) and her friends lighting up cigarettes and getting drunk, I was just not interested in it. I did flip through the rest of the book, and did get a feel for the characters, and what happened during it, but I did not read every single page. I honestly cannot believe this is a young adult book. I did enjoy the Spiderwick Chronicles by the same author, but I just wish she could have laid off on some of the material in this particular book. You don't have to swear on every page, and teenagers today are portrayed more and more as having no values at all. That really bothers me. I know a lot of people liked this book, and that is great. I don't think you are crazy or anything.:) It just wasn't for me."
"i couldn't finish this book and i WON'T finish it. it is horribly stupid and swears like 10 times a page. it is all about cigarettes, drinking, and freakky people in dark alleys. WHAT THE HECK?! i couldn't believe what was happening in the book; it was disgusting!! ew! ew! i learned a lesson from this book: DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER!"
"Holly Black isn't writing about the clean-cut honor roll students, the ones who most YA authors want to write about. Her teens are the ones that are falling through the cracks. It is this that at the very outset grabbed my attention. In Black's faery world, things are much more like the original Grimm tales, updated for a modern sensibility. Faeries are capricious and often cruel, with little to no understanding of consequences or the suffering of their victims. The central love story is pleasantly understated, and allows for generous character development between Kaye and the dark faery knight whom she rescues. The writing style is definitely aimed at teens, but respects that teens are much more knowledgeable on certain subjects than most authors and publishers seem willing to acknowledge. Black does not shy away from hard subjects, and does not hesitate to put her characters through the wringer. The world she's created is hard, and no one in it gets an easy ride. That alone made this a compulsive page-turner, because she makes it quite clear that what happens within her pages really truly matters. I finished it within the span of a day."
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