Pam Smy
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Algemene kennis
- Geslacht
- female
- Woonplaatsen
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Beroepen
- Lecturer
- Relaties
- Shelton, Dave (spouse)
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Thornhill door Pam Smy
An approriatley creepy October read that FLIES by despite it's massive size. I really enjoyed the half text/half art format and would love to read more graphic novels that way. I thought the plot itself was nothing special (a bit predictable, really) but I felt so much sympathy for Mary as a character; she was very well written. This felt like a more YA version of "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" and I think a lot of readers will enjoy that.
Beautiful, dark tale of a lonely girl living in an unfriendly orphanage, called Thornhill. The prose part is the diary of the girl, Mary, in 1982, and is interspersed by sequences of full-page black&white illustrations, telling the story of another young girl, Ella, growing up in the shadow of Thornhill in 2017, and learning of its dark past. So, not a cheery tale. But Smy pulls it off really well — it's very engaging, and the interplay of diary pages and illustrations works exceedingly well. Might have liked a slightly more nuanced, complex ending, but a very good book. Beautiful edition too.… (meer)
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- #54,272
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- 3.8
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