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Samuel Blink And The Runaway Troll (2008)

by Matt Haig(Favorite Author)

3.75 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0399247408 (ISBN13: 9780399247408)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Putnam Juvenile

series

Shadow Forest

review 1: This book is sooo good! I was ten when i read it, so it was a year ago. I bought it in a bookshop thats called 'Waterstone' when i visited the UK. I thought it looked like a book for me when i first saw it, and i had right! So - the book is all about a boy - Samuel Blink - whos parents died (i don't know how, but something fell from the sky, and then BOOOM!!! ...they died....) and moved to Norway with his sister Martha to live with his aunt which was called Eda. I can't say more, then i'll ruin everything, and i think you don't want someone to ruin it for you... / From a girl who's actually not born in a country who's talking english... Hope u understand what i'm writing...;)
review 2: First of all, I'm perfectly willing to admit that I may have read this book ... moreat a time when I'm kind of down on books in general. It clouds judgements, makes you bored, craving that "wow!", that "it" quality. Therefore, with an indifferent heart I declare The Runaway Troll GLORIOUSLY average. Do I think Haig is better suited to adult fiction? Yes. (it didn't stop Margaret Atwood either). Is this book entreating for kids? Probably. It's a little gimmicky, contains several small doses of important life lessons, and is action-dusted (certainly not packed)! It wasn't particularly funny to me but I'm also not a kid or a tween. It also did not do much to make you care for the characters (not like The Labrador Pact or Dead Father's Club did). As far as Haig's juvenile fiction books go, clearly a sophomore slump, hoping for a bounce-back. less

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