It is never fair to finish up a book you liked a lot/loved (in this case, The Secret History — despite my best intentions of early bed, I stayed up past until midnight to finish it this past rereading time), and turn straight away to a book you haven’t read before that sounds vaguely similar. You’re going to compare them, and even though your rational mind knows that they are not in competition, one of them is going to lose out. However, there were a few things working to shield The White Devil from the inevitable failure when compared to…
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Review: Gunnerkrigg Court, Tom Siddell
Published 20 Feb 2010
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Gin Jenny
Can this count as part of the mini-challenge where we read graphic novels with animals in? Animals are not main characters exactly, but they are around, and rather important. And I didn’t like the other graphic novel I read for the mini-challenge, so I hereby decree Gunnerkrigg Court counts. So let it be written; so let it be done. Gunnerkrigg Court is about a girl called Antimony Carver, who goes to live at a boarding school called Gunnerkrigg Court, following the death of her mother. (Her father is off somewhere doing some sort of we don’t know what he’s doing.) …
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