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Tinder (2013)

by Sally Gardner(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1780621493 (ISBN13: 9781780621494)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Indigo

review 1: A dark dream-like fairytale that examines love and the horrors of war. Tinder is an exquisitely designed book, filled with a beautiful poetic prose, and amazing angular black and white (and red) illustrations that interact in unique ways with the text. The story, inspired by Hans Christian Anderson's Tinderbox fairytale, which I have yet to read, was a real page turner and the atmosphere is so strongly conjured by Sally's individual and distinctive way of describing the world, and the the graphic quality of the illustrations, that it stays with you long after you finish reading.
review 2: Of all the fairy tale retellings out there, this might the most unique. I might be a bit biased because it involves werewolves. It's as if this book was written in the 1800s, ... moreand I mean that in the most positive way. In fact, it was as if I was reading Bram Stoker's Dracula again. The language and the mystery and the horror were just so good! I had never heard of this Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale but I will definitely be reading it now. I loved that there were drawings in this because it accentuated the horror of the story. less

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