Reade Scott Whinnem
Autor de The Pricker Boy
Obras de Reade Scott Whinnem
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Miembros
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Premios
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Miembros
- 46
- Popularidad
- #335,831
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 7
There's a local legend about a creature with gray skin who is the ghost of a boy left to die in a trap. Children leave offerings to him to throw him off the scent. When Stucks and his friends find one of these shrines, strange things begin to happen.
The Pricker Boy's pacing is similar to Lord of the Flies and the anger expressed by Pete (Stuck's best friend) gives the book a similar savagery. But the pacing of events and the slight of hand used to obfuscate the flashbacks ruined the horror elements for me. Too much of the plot rests on the shoulders of an unreliable narrator — one of my least favorite plot devices.… (más)