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Facing The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (2012)

by L.L. Samson(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0310727952 (ISBN13: 9780310727958)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Zonderkidz, a division of Zondervan

series

The Enchanted Attic

review 1: Ophelia and Linus Easterday are two twins that have been left in Kingscross with their aunt and uncle, who own a bookstore, for 5 years, due to the fact that their parents left to study butterflies on a small island. So when Linus and Ophelia find a secret passage into the attic that holds many secrets, they are quick to notice a white circle in the middle of the floor. After meeting Walter, a boy from London who attended the school next door, a coincidence lands the trio in a mess. The hunchback of Notre Dame has appeared in the middle of the attic, right out of the storybook! Now they have to safely get the hunchback back into his own book. The plot was interesting, the characters were quirky, and the flow was good. I liked how the author used lots of unusual words, and... more defined them in parenthesis. This cute fantasy read is a great book overall.
review 2: A delightful story, in the fashion of the classic children’s books of the mid-20th century, Facing the Hunchback of Notre Dame is not-despite the title!-a horror story. Narrated by one disgruntled literate of Kingscross University (grumpy and envious, all right), the custodian Bartholomew Inkster, this novel recounts some of the adventures of twins Ophelia and Linus, fourteen years old, who are sent to spend the next five years in the home of their mother’s twin siblings, Portia and Augustus, while their Ph.D. lepidopterist parents explore a newly-discovered island. The younger twins are accustomed to being left quite on their own, and have been since age seven or younger, so they are not really dismayed. Aunt and uncle own a business in their home, and are sellers of antiquarian and rare books, an establishment frequented by our narrator Mr. Inkster. It is he who first noticed the potentially paranormal oddities in the bookstore, housed as it is on the ground floor of Portia and Augustus Sandwich’s three-story residence. The home had originally been another’s home and business, but that owner, Cato Grubb, mysteriously disappeared (overnight as it were), which has given the younger twins (Linus and Ophelia) much food for thought and discovery adventures. Indeed this is the case, and first Linus, and then Ophelia the reader, discover that the disappearance of Grubb didn’t necessarily mean the disappearance of all of his activities. For the former businessperson was not just an apothecary, but fancied himself a bit of a ceremonial magician, and had left behind in his attic-the very subject of the French classic novel Ophelia has just begun to read-Quasimodo, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, in the flesh! less

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