Wright,
Michelle Audrey’s Magic Nine, 141
pages. Illustrated by Courtney
Huddleston. GRAPHC NOVEL. Penny-Farthing Productions, 2018. $15. Content: Language: G; Mature Content: G;
Violence: PG.
Audrey is a foster child
who uses her sketch pad as a way to deal with what is going on in her real
life. A nice woman named Tabitha and her
husband decide they want to adopt Audrey, and Tabitha enrolls Audrey in all sorts
of extracurricular activities. Audrey is
exhausted, but also likes Tabitha so she tries to keep up. Audrey still makes time for her drawings and
she starts to draw stuffed puppet she brought with her from the group
home. The stuffed puppet comes to life
and sets her on a quest to find other puppets who once were great warriors but
have been banned to Audrey’s world as puppets.
I love Audrey and the realistic parts of this story, including the well intention-ed Tabitha who is dealing with her own insecurities. The illustrations are fantastic and
appealing. Everything got a little too
crazy when the puppet came alive and then Audrey and her puppet go to a creepy
puppet show to try and track down the other missing puppets/warriors. That’s when the story lost me and it got a
bit too fantasy weirdness for my taste.
The ending is super abrupt and this story covers the first three puppets
and there is supposed to be two more graphic novels to the series. The violence is PG because in the beginning
the foster house implies abuse and neglect, the creepy puppet
show feels menacing and Tabitha's friends bully her even though she is an adult.
EL, MS – OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment