The Emerald Atlas ~ review
Good evening all my little bookdragons! I read The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens through February (from the 7th to the 24th) and here’s my review of it. Hope you enjoy!!
So first I want to write about the book itself.
Title: The Emerald Atkas (The Books of Beginning #1)
Genre: Humor/adventure/action/fantasy
Average rating at Goodreads: 3.92
About the book, characters and plot
The plot: The plot begins when the oldest sibling, Katherine (Kate) gets a mission from her mom before they get departed, she needs to take care of her younger siblings: Michael and Emma.
They get taken away from their parents, and try to settle down at different orphanage, still thinking that their parents one day will return to them. Suddenly one day, they get transferred to Cambridge Falls, that’s like in the middle of nowhere. The people there are silent and strange, and the orphanage they soon again will settle down to, have no other children than just the three of them. Their new home will soon begin to be a magical place with a lot of rooms before they one day stumble upon a mystical book. Then the fate will lay in the hands of these three children …
The book is well-written and funny. It’s real in the people expressions and the author takes care of not only the scenes with action in it, but also the scenes of silence. Where everything can be calm for a moment. He describes the surroundings good and Narnia-like.
The characters have their own personalities. They’re colorful and with a lot of expressions. The author really knows how to set in a mind of young children, how they react to things and how they behave in a way that I never could (and I am 19).
Kate (Katherine) is the oldest sibling in an age of 14. She is nerveous and stressful and always overthinking things. She is the modest one of the siblings and always try to come with sensibility in the world they were sent to.
Michael is the middlekid … however I can’t remember how old he is, maybe 13 … He is the smart-guy in the book. He always comes up with facts and are obsessed by the dwarves and their culture. His long life dream is to see live-dwarves!
Emma is the youngest on 11. She is a tough little kid, but soft on the inside. She always like to pick up fights and gets easily irritated or jeaoulus. However when it comes to family, that is a soft spot and she always try to stay as one of the rebel-ones.
Later in the book (but I won’t spoil anything) we get to meet a lot of different characters that you both would love and hate. There’s strong female characters, strong male characters, goodness and evilness intertwined with each other and the author really knows how to play around with his charater and give one of them their own lives, story and personalities.
I really loved this book, I really did! I felt like it was as magical and creative as Narnia, set in probably a more modern timeline? We really don’t get to know which year is it, but they use so much of a polaroid-camera, that you can’t possibly think it’s one of the most modern days. I also loved that he put a lot of humor in it, and usually I don’t like a lot of books with humour (probably because I think the author tries to hard), but I really felt that everything in this book came natural forth.
I liked reading about the storie, the characters and their adventure through time. I think that my favourite characters has to be Emma and Gabriel, Robbie and Dr. Pym …
Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed it!! ~See you in the world of stories~
jbbartram-illu
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jacobvanloon
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blakekathryn
