Book Review: The Spider Chronicles
By: Thamayanthi Giritharan
I love to read a lot of books, so I think I’m a pretty good judge of it too! And you’re in luck, because I’ll show you my opinion on a couple of books from the series that you might be familiar with, “The Spider Chronicles.” You may have heard these series before, or you might have been thinking, “Where on earth did these books come from? I never heard of them,” (because it just came out) like how I was thinking when I first received these books. If you never read these books before and want to find out what it’s about, or you just want to see someone else’s opinion, you’ve come to the right article!
There are five books in all in the series, which are written by Tony Diterlizzi and Holly Black. These books are 100% worth reading because they’re definitely interesting and mysterious, but in the second book, “The Seeing Stone” there is one sentence that I think is a little weird, “The goblin leaned back and urinated on the fire, making the flames blaze green.” You might not think it’s weird but I sure do. But hey! That’s what the authors want to write. The rest of the book was quite cool, though.
This book is also quite decorative too. You are probably asking yourself, “How can a book be decorative?” Well, I can answer that! The answer lies between the paragraphs on some of the pages. On some of the pages there would be mystical creature spacing the paragraphs. Those creatures would be elves. But why am I talking about the decoration of the book, well I say how the story is written is the most important part of a good book, and for a little extra touch, many authors love to have the cover page and the other pages exquisitely hand drawn by very good illustrators. Maybe for more people to buy it, but I don’t have any problem with that, because the writing is real good.
Still have no clue on what the book is about? Well, if you have read “The Series Of Unfortunate Events” (like I have) and the “Candlewick”, well “The Spiderwick Chronicles” is exactly a mix of the two. It’s mystical and magical, and about the creatures that aren’t usually seen or believed, but three children soon discover that the untrue has become the true. It kind of makes you wonder is it true or not? On one side you’re saying, “Nah! Am I going mad or what?” and on the other side you’re saying, “Could it be true?” (but of course we all say it’s untrue, or is it?).
I’ve never thought this book will make me read non-stop, because it did! I was reading day and night, (okay not the night part, but you know what I’m talking about), I wouldn’t stop until it was breakfast, lunch or dinner, even in school, when I had free time I would read the books! I couldn’t stop reading until the end; it was that exciting! So pick up this book at your local corner library, school bookshelf or your local bookshop!
