james dashner the journal of curious letters

Names like Atticus Higgenbottom, Norbert, Mistress Jane, Mr. The characters are vibrant and endearing. Well, I found myself reading it with her, just as anxious to find out what happened next in the book. 'Reading is boring.' So when I picked up The 13th Reality, I was hoping she'd like it. 'Why don't you read a book?' I say to her. It really seems that Dashner would have been better off paring the novel way down and publishing it as the first book in a middle-grade series, alongside Animorphs and the like.Įverything is boring to my 11 year old daughter. To top it off, I found the climax disappointing, and the whole 400 page novel seems to mostly be the set-up for a series.

Frankly, the whole thing read embarrassingly like something I would have come up with during my teens. Throughout the book, the author either tries distractingly hard to make his metaphors original, or falls back on cliches. This is particularly the case with Paul, whose 'chill' manner of speaking and awkward slang seems to be Dashner's effort to remind the reader that Paul is from California. Tick and the other characters never quite ring true as people Tick is a stereotype of a geeky kid, and the other characters come off as flat. My initial reaction to this book - that some of the ideas were original but that the writing was decidedly sub-par - was unfortunately accurate. Will you join Tick and his friends on an amazing journey through the Realities? What will your choice be?

warns Tick, Very frightening things are coming your way. The first volume of an outstanding new children’s fantasy series, The Journal of Curious Letters is filled with adventure, humor, riddles, and, oh, yes - danger.

sends to him? Will he be able to solve the riddles in time? Will Tick discover the life he was meant to live? Will Tick have the courage to follow the twelve clues M.G. promises to send Tick twelve riddles that will reveal on a certain day, at a certain time, at a certain place, something extraordinary will happen. Postmarked from Alaska and cryptically signed with the initials “M.G.,” the letter informs Tick that dangerous - perhaps even deadly - events have been set in motion that could result in the destruction of reality itself. Tick, is an average thirteen-year-old boy until the day a strange letter arrives in his mailbox.

What if every time you made a choice that had a significant consequence, a new, alternate reality was created - the life that would’ve been had you made the other choice? What if those new realities were in danger? What if it fell to you to save all the realities?Ītticus Higginbottom, a.k.a.

James dashner the journal of curious letters