Rose is a young girl living New York City. A turn of events lead her into another land called U Nork. While it resembles her hometown, life in U Nork is very different; people fly on pigeons and drive cars up the side of buildings. No one believes her until she shows them the tiny dog she got while she was there. Her new friends in U Nork need her help, their very existence is threaten by Alma the Ice Queen. With her brother Oliver and her special friend Mr. Murphy, Rose must find a way to save U Nork.
There were many unappealing things about this book for me. For the most part the characters, story, and dialogue are very young and simplistic, but randomly much more sophisticated words and concepts were thrown around (plinth, committing suicide, speakeasy’s, frenemy, and velocity), which were just confounding. The author failed to endear me to the characters, making the wildly convoluted strange plot hard to buy into. I also felt like the artwork was dated (reminiscent of the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew book artwork) and would be unappealing to today’s readers.
Elementary –NOT RECOMMENDED. Reviewer: Stephanie MLIS graduate.
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