Christie, Robert and
Deborah Lang Quirk’s Quest: Into the Outlands, 126 pgs. GRAPHIC NOVEL First Second, 2016. $16.99
Content: PG.
Quirk is a bumbling
captain who leads a party to discover the outer edges of Crutonia. From the get go, they encounter danger and
their boat is destroyed leaving them abandoned on an unknown land. They find a cave and at first think they have
found someone to help them named Hukka, but then Hukka starts to perform magic that
is harmful. Quirk has to get his people
safely away and at the same time he still tries to discover everything he can
about the land.
I wanted to like this
book and at times I thought, “Okay, it’s getting better”, but overall there is
just too much going on. One problem is
that there are times Quirk writes in cursive, using a hard to read font and I
know a lot of kids who can’t read cursive.
Second, there are A LOT of characters and they all have really unusual
names making it impossible to keep track of everyone. Third, just when I thought I might find out
what was wrong with Hukka and how Quirk was going to solve the problem, the
story ends leaving it open for a series.
I would pass on reading anything else in a series, and wouldn’t recommend
this book. The illustrations look like
Fraggle Rock characters which is cute, but the story line is boring and doesn’t
end up going anywhere.
EL – NO. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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