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The Grave Robber's Apprentice (2012)

by Allan Stratton(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0061976083 (ISBN13: 9780061976087)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

HarperCollins

review 1: I have to say, this book is in a class all it's own- so different from other children's middle grade books I have read recently- I don't even know if that is truly how I would label it. This book is not afraid to be dark, and dark it is. I LOVE the story, I LOVE the beautiful language, the voice it is told in. Many times throughout the story, I was sort of reminded of "The Princess Bride" only darker, scarier. I could see how easily this could be made into a fantastic movie, which is funny, as I can't stand it when a book is ruined by the movie it becomes. The story is just fantastic. Oddly, though, at no time did I feel like I had developed any type of closeness with the two main characters. I rooted for them, sure, but I felt distant all the while. This book is a great a... moredventure, no doubt, but one you watch from a distance- I just wasn't invested in the heroes. That is the only reason I didn't give it five stars. And I'm not so sure that relationship (between myself and the characters) even matters so much- in the end, you have still read a beautiful and satisfying tale.
review 2: Hans doesn’t know who he really is. He know he was washed ashore in a chest and was “adopted” by a grave robber. He also knows he has a strange birthmark. One night when robbing graves, he discovers he’s really helping Angela, a young countess escape from her marriage to an evil man. And this gets the necromancer involved. Now you may think I’m going to tell you what necromancer means, but I’m not going to. Look it up in a dictionary! As the both seek to escape, which includes a ride down a snowy mountain in a coffin, they discover a lot about themselves including who is Hans’ father. And like all good fantasies, the story ends happily—at least for those who deserve a happy ending. For the evil ones the ending is not so happy. less

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