Title: Kin: The Good Neighbors book one
Author: Holly Black
Illustrator: Ted Naifeh
Publisher: Graphix
Publication Date: 2008
Hardback: 144 pages
Genre: YA
Goodreads Summary:
Rue's mother has disappeared and her father is moldering downstairs in a fit of depression. She believes her mother is crazy, something she tried to hide from her friends, and that she just wandered off. Rue just tries to go on with her life without thinking too much about the argument her parents had before her mom disappeared. An argument that implied her father had an affair and he would prevent her mother from leaving him. Rue has also been seeing some strange things, sprites and odd creatures that she can't explain. While she's out with her boyfriend and she discovers that a neighbor has called the police on her father. While in jail, one of Dr. Silver's students is found strangled in a nearby pond. Rue would then meet her young-looking and seemingly evil grandfather. The grandfather and his assistant Tam (Tam Lin, I'm guessing) want Rue to embrace her faerie side and help with a plan to make humans fear faeries once again. When Rue's mother shows back up, thus exonerating Dr. Silver, the story then moves along predictably. There's an equally predictable cliffhanger ending that will be picked up in Kith: The Good Neighbors book two.
I like Holly Black's Modern Faerie tale books (Valiant, Ironside, etc.), but this story was just okay. Kin was setting up the story and was slightly predictable, but I do have high hopes for the the other books in the series. I was not a fan of Naifeh's artwork. The black and white ink drawings was a nice approach, I just didn't care for the pencil work. Characters tended to all look the same so I had to think about who the character was at times.
Verdict:
I appreciate the fact that Kin was setting up the story for the following books. Keeping that in mind, I'll definitely pick up Kith to see how the story moves along. I was disappointed in the the artwork so I probably won't buy the series unless I really liking the other books. So I say, check it out, I think this could be good.
Rue Silver's mother has disappeared . . . and her father has been arrested, suspected of killing her. But it's not as straightforward as that. Because Rue is a faerie, like her mother was. And her father didn't kill her mother -- instead, he broke a promise to Rue's faerie king grandfather, which caused Rue's mother to be flung back to the faerie world. Now Rue must go to save her -- and must also defeat a dark faerie that threatens our very mortal world.Review:
Rue's mother has disappeared and her father is moldering downstairs in a fit of depression. She believes her mother is crazy, something she tried to hide from her friends, and that she just wandered off. Rue just tries to go on with her life without thinking too much about the argument her parents had before her mom disappeared. An argument that implied her father had an affair and he would prevent her mother from leaving him. Rue has also been seeing some strange things, sprites and odd creatures that she can't explain. While she's out with her boyfriend and she discovers that a neighbor has called the police on her father. While in jail, one of Dr. Silver's students is found strangled in a nearby pond. Rue would then meet her young-looking and seemingly evil grandfather. The grandfather and his assistant Tam (Tam Lin, I'm guessing) want Rue to embrace her faerie side and help with a plan to make humans fear faeries once again. When Rue's mother shows back up, thus exonerating Dr. Silver, the story then moves along predictably. There's an equally predictable cliffhanger ending that will be picked up in Kith: The Good Neighbors book two.
I like Holly Black's Modern Faerie tale books (Valiant, Ironside, etc.), but this story was just okay. Kin was setting up the story and was slightly predictable, but I do have high hopes for the the other books in the series. I was not a fan of Naifeh's artwork. The black and white ink drawings was a nice approach, I just didn't care for the pencil work. Characters tended to all look the same so I had to think about who the character was at times.
Verdict:
I appreciate the fact that Kin was setting up the story for the following books. Keeping that in mind, I'll definitely pick up Kith to see how the story moves along. I was disappointed in the the artwork so I probably won't buy the series unless I really liking the other books. So I say, check it out, I think this could be good.
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