Jan 19 2012 at 12pm / 7 notes
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cannonball read / review 04 / What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy by Gregory Maguire I had to skim this one just to finish it. Definitely another “Maguire blowing cigarettes in my face” experience, unfortunately. This oddly long childrens’ book builds a mythology around the Tooth Fairy: there are actually thousands of them, and the true name for their people is the Skibbereen. (I know. So… cute.) We follow the journey of an orphan Skibberee, named What-the-Dickens, as he learns there are more little creatures like him and tries to find a community that’ll accept his odd ways. The only thing that actually kept me reading was the story around the story - the whole thing’s framed as a story told to three frightened children by their cousin/babysitter during an apocalyptic storm. I wanted much more apocalyptic storm and much less dumb tooth fairy story. This book gets one solitary star… for the hope of a potential sequel where the resourceful young girl has to strike out on her own across the ruined country to save her baby sister. See it at goodreads.

cannonball read / review 04 / What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy by Gregory Maguire

I had to skim this one just to finish it. Definitely another “Maguire blowing cigarettes in my face” experience, unfortunately. This oddly long childrens’ book builds a mythology around the Tooth Fairy: there are actually thousands of them, and the true name for their people is the Skibbereen. (I know. So… cute.) We follow the journey of an orphan Skibberee, named What-the-Dickens, as he learns there are more little creatures like him and tries to find a community that’ll accept his odd ways.

The only thing that actually kept me reading was the story around the story - the whole thing’s framed as a story told to three frightened children by their cousin/babysitter during an apocalyptic storm. I wanted much more apocalyptic storm and much less dumb tooth fairy story.

This book gets one solitary star… for the hope of a potential sequel where the resourceful young girl has to strike out on her own across the ruined country to save her baby sister. See it at goodreads.

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