Unfortunately, I am still reading Slawter by the more than good, successful and prodigious author Darren Shan. Unfortunately, because I wasn't planning on reading this book that long, but I am. Only because I haven't been doing as much as reading as I've done in the past [shh...] More about this book, there's a kid named Grubbs. Grubbs Grady. In the book, he has a uncle named, Dervish who is pretty chill and cool, he's a monster fighter! The monster is Lord Loss, or called the Demonata. They encounter a lady who offers them a role in her movie, Slawter only to have a surprise, she's working with the Demonata. When they try to escape, unexpected things happen...
In Slawter, there's a lot of different things going on. Well, it looks like it since i'm very little into the book. Especially in the part of the book i'm in, there's another character I forgot to mention, Bill-E Spleen. Bill-E is Grubbs' brother, but Bill-E just doesn't know it. He has a problem, he has Lycanthropy which makes him turn into a wolf who eats people. They are searching for him, in the book they try to run away from the Demonata but they end up in another "dream world" where he is captured. I think this book is more about like, "running away from your fears won't solve anything", because really that's what they're doing. And it's not helping. I think it's just making the problem worse. In the story, I felt that Grubbs, Dervish and Bill-E were a little audacious running away from the Demonata, because he can find you anywhere, anytime. I felt that was stupid as well. This book is kind of predictable, like I know or, I sense that Grubbs/Dervish will fight Lord Loss to protect Bill-E.
I think the story shows a sincere theme that reflects off of life too. "Running away from your fears won't solve anything" and it's true. When you're in a mess, neglecting it will just make it worse. I would know, that's what I always do. It's something I can seriously relate to. Even though I barely read, I think i'm starting to like this book enough to continue it.
Also, notice how I changed the picture even though it's the same book, yeah I'm so nice 8)
What do you think? Should I read it or just quit? Let me know!
*Black, underlined words are for the Writing Challenge.
Yours truly,
Zarrin 813 (:
Keep reading it if you like it! I find it hard to get emotionally invested in fantasy books, but it seems like you really like this one. Is the theme (Running away from your fears won't solve anything) really obvious in the book? Because I hate obvious themes. They're very cheesy.
ReplyDeleteThe theme isn't that obvious I think. But thanks! I stopped reading it hahaha! It was too boring, I'm going to skip that and read the 4th Demonata book.
ReplyDeleteOh nice post Zarrrrrrrrrin. You used the vocabulary words nicely. I'm not into these kind of books, but you made it sound kind of good... Too bad you aren't still reading it. And you had nice structure in your post.
ReplyDeleteGreat use of vocabulary words!
ReplyDeleteIf you hadn't stopped reading the book, I would have recommended that you didn't stop, just because, it's hard to stop in the middle of a book... Well,it is for me. I always want to know how the book would end. Since, you did stop reading, in the future maybe you'll pick up where you left.
These books aren't really my type, but like Daisy said, you made this book sound interesting. You changed the way I feel about these books and I am even going to consider reading this particular one.
Like always, this was a great post. :)
HA! Nice vocabulary!!! Your blog post is amazing! It's formated perfectly, and it's not only about the good of the book, you start out with unfortunately, which makes the ready want to keep reading. I never lost focus on your blog post once!
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