Candy Quackenbush from Chickentown, U.S.A., is about to embark on an epic journey that will change her boring life forever as she dives from a barren field in Minnesota into the enormous Sea of Izabella. Illustrations.
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Candy Quackenbush from Chickentown, U.S.A., is about to embark on an epic journey that will change her boring life forever as she dives from a barren field in Minnesota into the enormous Sea of Izabella. Illustrations.
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Like New. Size: 6x1x9; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear to jacket. Clean, unmarked pages. xxv, 388 pages: color illustrations; 24 cm.
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Stated First Edition, first printing with full number line in very good condition. The pages are clean and crisp, in like new condition, with no bent corners. Boards are solid, and the spine is square and tight. The dust jacket has minor shelf wear with a tear on the front at the top. Otherwise an attractive book with minimal signs of use an unclipped dust jacket and no remainder mark. All items guaranteed, and a portion of each sale supports social programs in Los Angeles. Ships from CA.
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Stated First Edition, first printing with full number line in fine / like new condition. The pages are clean and crisp with no bent corners. Pictorial boards are as new, and the spine is square and tight. The dust jacket is clean and undamaged. The book is in excellent condition with an unclipped DJ, and no remainder mark. All items guaranteed, and a portion of each sale supports social programs in Los Angeles. Ships from CA.
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-1. Flat signed by author Clive Barker on the title page. Not personalized with an "Autographed" sticker on the front. Stated First Edition, third printing in fine / like new condition. The pages are clean and crisp with no bent corners. Boards are as new, and the spine is square and tight. The dust jacket is clean and undamaged. Book appears new/ unread with an unclipped DJ, and no remainder mark. All items guaranteed, and a portion of each sale supports social programs in Los Angeles. Ships from CA.
Actual rating: 4.5 but I'll round up because I love this world, it's amazing.
solid crazy weird YA fantasy with some monumental worldbuilding from Clive Barker. I'd honestly describe this whimsical, delightfully insane world he builds in this novel as Dr. Seuss meets H.P. Lovecraft a little. It's compelling, it's wacky, and it has a pretty great story to boot, with some fairly one-dimensional, but simple and enjoyable characters. The worldbuilding really had me hooked from the beginning, with Abarat being such a well-detailed, surreal and phantasmagorical world that really pulls out that child-like imagination from a reader of any age.
The main reason I would not give it a full 5 stars, is because of the absolute lack of resolution or any feeling of finality. At the end of the novel you're left very obviously feeling like this was a part of a larger whole, rather than an ending that allows room for the story to continue on and still feel satisfying. I genuinely did not expect the ending of the audiobook when it happened. There's really no other resolution at the end aside from our protag getting away from the baddies, which happens a lot. It leaves a bit to be desired, and I think could have been done in a less abrupt way.
raymae29
Mar 27, 2008
great book
I loved this book!!! It was different from others out there I couldn't wait to read book two.
