Darkside (novel)
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| Followed by | Lifeblood | |
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Darkside is a 2007 children's novel by
Darkside also won the Calderdale Children's Book of the year Award.Synopsis
Jonathan Starling is a very unlucky and shy teen. He doesn’t really have a social life and lives by himself due to his dad’s strange illness. Or, at least that was his happy life in “Lightside”. He had nearly been kidnapped by a bounty hunter and taken to the very mysterious place known as Darkside. Since he has been attacked by a werewolf, been close to being stabbed with a knife and swam in the “pool of pain”. Meanwhile back in Lightside. Detectives are trying to put the puzzle pieces together and find the kidnapper of Jonathan. Also, Ricky Thomas has been taken there and has been demanded to fight jackals. Just what is the real reason that they are in Darkside?
Reception
S. F. Said, writing for The Guardian, said "It's a marvellously convincing dystopia; the only downside is that Darkside, when we get there, seems friendlier than modern London. Perhaps that's Becker's point: that the Victorians' grotesque nightmares are less terrifying than the everyday reality we've since created. We never see enough of Darkside to be certain of this; but tantalising hints suggest that the shadow-city will be more deeply and fully developed in sequels."[3]
See also
References
- ^ .Waterstone's Children's Book Prize Archived 2009-10-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Manchester Book Award Archived 2010-07-21 at the Wayback Machine. Manchester Book Award. Retrieved on 2012-04-23.
- ^ Said, S. F. (4 March 2007). "Darkside". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
