A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the first of a quartet appearing at yearly intervals, richly illustrated by the author. Film rights sold to Disney for 8 million dollars on the paintings alone. Abarat: an archipelago of amazement and wonder. A land made up of twenty-five islands, each one representing one hour of the day, each one a unique place of adventure and danger (and one mysterious place out of time), all ruled over by the evil Christopher Carrion, Lord of Midnight, and his monstrous grandmother, Mater ...
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A dazzling fantasy adventure for all ages, the first of a quartet appearing at yearly intervals, richly illustrated by the author. Film rights sold to Disney for 8 million dollars on the paintings alone. Abarat: an archipelago of amazement and wonder. A land made up of twenty-five islands, each one representing one hour of the day, each one a unique place of adventure and danger (and one mysterious place out of time), all ruled over by the evil Christopher Carrion, Lord of Midnight, and his monstrous grandmother, Mater Motley. Candy Quackenbush, a 16-year old from Chickentown, Minnesota, crosses by accident from our world into Abarat, and discovers she has been there many, many times before. She has friends there and she has enemies. As Candy makes her journey between all the islands of the archipelago, she will discover a plot by Christopher Carrion to block out the Sun, Moon and stars to achieve a condition of Permanent Midnight. In order to prevent this disaster, Candy must find the courage to confront the Lord of Midnight; and in doing so come to know who she really is: a revelation which will transform her own understanding of her place in the epic events. The first book of Abarat is a spellbinding adventure for all ages, combining the heartstopping tension of a thriller with the powerful charm of the most enduring fable. And beneath all, it possesses the quicksilver imagination of one of the finest writers at work today. Richly illustrated with dozens of dazzling full-colour paintings by the author, the four books of Abarat have been rightly called Clive Barker's Narnia, his Wonderland. A visual and literary treat that will capture the imnaginations of adults and children alike.
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Actual rating: 4.5 but I'll round up because I love this world, it's amazing.
solid crazy weird YA fantasy with some monumental worldbuilding from Clive Barker. I'd honestly describe this whimsical, delightfully insane world he builds in this novel as Dr. Seuss meets H.P. Lovecraft a little. It's compelling, it's wacky, and it has a pretty great story to boot, with some fairly one-dimensional, but simple and enjoyable characters. The worldbuilding really had me hooked from the beginning, with Abarat being such a well-detailed, surreal and phantasmagorical world that really pulls out that child-like imagination from a reader of any age.
The main reason I would not give it a full 5 stars, is because of the absolute lack of resolution or any feeling of finality. At the end of the novel you're left very obviously feeling like this was a part of a larger whole, rather than an ending that allows room for the story to continue on and still feel satisfying. I genuinely did not expect the ending of the audiobook when it happened. There's really no other resolution at the end aside from our protag getting away from the baddies, which happens a lot. It leaves a bit to be desired, and I think could have been done in a less abrupt way.
raymae29
Mar 27, 2008
great book
I loved this book!!! It was different from others out there I couldn't wait to read book two.
