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Douze Minutes Avant Minuit (2013)

by Christopher Edge(Favorite Author)

3.46 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Flammarion

series

Twelve Minutes to Midnight

review 1: Thirteen-year-old Penelope Tredwell uses a pen name to write scary tales that have elevated her father's magazine, Penny Dreadful, to new heights of popularity. Readers just can't get enough of those stories she weaves. In fact, a doctor at the local mental asylum begs her (or the man who is fronting for Penny) for assistance. It seems that several of his patients awaken each night and begin to write bizarre stories. Penny eventually figures out what's going on--readers will recognize early on that the writings are torn from the pages of the future--and goes up an unlikely foe. I enjoyed the first two thirds of this story with its courageous, inventive, and determined heroine, but the last third was disappointing to me. There were too many instances of someone seeming to b... moree dead but then turning out not to be as well as too much inclusion of the famous writers of period London to be believed. I wish the author had stopped the book earlier since the resolution of all these dangling ends was ultimately disappointing. Penny surely had a great deal of freedom for someone her age living in 1899. The descriptions of Penny's descent into venom-induced madness were quite delightful, though.
review 2: A spine-tingling mystery, atmospheric and macabre, cloaked in the muck of the seamy underside of life in Victorian England. Seedy pubs, grimy streets, creepy basements and a horror- movie madhouse are the unlikely places dauntless 13-year old Penelope tramps into in pursuit of the evil villain. Wicked smart, intrepid, and free from the ordinary constraints of childhood- she answers to no one - Penelope may be a bit unbelievable, but she steals the show. less

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