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Title: Pure Dead Brilliant by Debi Gliori ISBN: 0-375-81412-4 Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Where was her editor?
Comment: My son (nearly 9) and I consumed Pure Dead Magic and Pure Dead Wicked! We were so excited to discover Pure Dead Brilliant was coming out that I pre-ordered it in hard back (something I never do). Unfortunately we barely made it through a hundred pages. Ms Gliori is, indeed, brilliant (!) but we had two major problems with this book. It's darker than the others in the series (too dark for a 9 year old?) and, despite the wonderful characters, is horribly over written. Where was her editor! The long flowery sentences, packed with adjectives and adverbs, killed the humour and our interest in the plot. I struggled to read them, and my son struggled to listen. It seemed every few minutes one of us was saying "wait a minute, what was that?" Or, in our less intellectual moments, "huh?" Finally we gave up. Despite the $18. And went back to The Roman Mysteries series by Caroline Lawrence, with hugh sighs of relief.
Rating: 5
Summary: Pure Dead Brilliant
Comment: I absolutely loved this book! Its really fun and exciting, not to mantion funny. The villain from Pure Dead Magic turns up again, along with a demon disguised as one of Signora Strega Borgia's classmates. Titus and Pandora see what may happen to them on Titus's laptop, travel through time, and learn that their baby sister is a more powerful witch then their mother! We meet Ffup's baby dragon, and learn of a fantastic library where you can borrow all kinds of magical objects (like Mrs. McLachlan's Soul Mirror). I give it 5 stars, and reccomend it to everyone.
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Title: Pure Dead Wicked by Debi Gliori ISBN: 0440419360 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 12 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Pure Dead Magic by Debi Gliori ISBN: 0375814108 Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 11 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 10) by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist ISBN: 0064410137 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, Anthea Bell ISBN: 0439531640 Publisher: Chicken House Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Terrible Times (Eddie Dickens, Book 3) by Philip Ardagh, David Roberts ISBN: 0805071563 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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