Sunday, 10 October 2010

Book 81: The Book of Dead Days, by Marcus Sedgwick

Read: Sunday 10th October, after church and a sunny stroll into town to have lunch with Noah.

Review: A dark tale, with its events mostly taking place at night, in graveyards and tunnels and small cramped spaces. A tale of desperate measures as Valerian, the apparently heartless and certainly troubled illusionist, seeks to avoid the mysterious dark fate he refuses to explain to his ill-treated famulus, known only as Boy. Full of clues and hints, and involving a definite change in the protagonist's character, I would rate this book as average-to-good. Certainly good enough to keep reading for a whole afternoon!

Time: About five hours, I guess. But I also made shortbread and did some work in that time. And spent ages frustrating at the internet because it wouldn't let me find out about eBook readers.

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