SharonC reviewed Abarat by Clive Barker
Review of 'Abarat' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
did not finish
Paperback, 432 pages
English language
Published Sept. 30, 2003 by HarperTrophy.
Abarat
by Clive Barker
4 stars
(27 reviews)
Candy Quackenbush, a sixteen-year-old girl, is bored with her life and is desperate for something new. She lives in Chickentown, Minnesota, has a drunkard father, and is often made fun of by other kids. One day at school, a strange image enters her head, and she draws it in a textbook. When her teacher notices, she is furious, and Candy has the sudden impulse to simply walk out of school. She wanders around town before coming to a vast field with an old lighthouse, and wonders why there would be a lighthouse where there is no sea for thousands of miles. She soon has her answer. Candy is thrust into the Abarat, a fantastic archipelago of twenty-five islands: one for each hour of the day, plus one extra: the mysterious Time Out of Time. Candy feels as if this place is familiar to her, and makes many friends, but all …
Candy Quackenbush, a sixteen-year-old girl, is bored with her life and is desperate for something new. She lives in Chickentown, Minnesota, has a drunkard father, and is often made fun of by other kids. One day at school, a strange image enters her head, and she draws it in a textbook. When her teacher notices, she is furious, and Candy has the sudden impulse to simply walk out of school. She wanders around town before coming to a vast field with an old lighthouse, and wonders why there would be a lighthouse where there is no sea for thousands of miles. She soon has her answer. Candy is thrust into the Abarat, a fantastic archipelago of twenty-five islands: one for each hour of the day, plus one extra: the mysterious Time Out of Time. Candy feels as if this place is familiar to her, and makes many friends, but all is not well: Christopher Carrion, Prince of Midnight, is pursuing her. Candy must find her place in this strange new world.
meeg reviewed Abarat by Clive Barker
Review of 'Abarat' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Ugh, this book is even better with a second read ~15 years later.
adastra reviewed Abarat by Clive Barker
Review of 'Abarat' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Now the wait for book 3 begins...
adastra reviewed Abarat by Clive Barker (Abarat, #1)
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3 stars
Not quite sure what to think, because it's hard to judge without reading the other 4 Abarat books out there / planned.
Subjects
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
- Fantasy
- Juvenile Fiction
- Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction
- Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)
- Space and time
- Action & Adventure - General
- Fiction / Fantasy / Epic
- Fiction