Boy, this took me a while to get into it but I'm glad I stuck with it. A shape-shifting hunchback and an orphan are both agents for this powerful guy in Victorian London. They're trying to figure out why orphans are disappearing off the streets and what is going on behind the doors of the Young L...
I'm only halfway through the book, but from what I understand it's a science/fantasy novel taking place in Great Britain during the 1800s. It follows the telling tale of a deformed hunchback from France (much like the Hunchback of Notre Dame) that has the ability to shapeshift. He is adopted by a...
"The Dark Deeps" (Hunchback A. 2) by Arthur Slade is scary steampunk. Brief precisely titled chapters shift viewpoints clearly, without confusion. Some, as the prologue with experimental "Yellow Boy" Griff, link, as to evil Dr. Hyde and icy lovely metal-hand red-haired Hakkandottir, and reappear ...
Jolted: Newton Starker's Rules for Survival is a book about a boy named Newton who lives by the rules he made so he wouldn’t die by getting hit by lightning as most Starkers have. When he sees Jerry Potts Academy for Higher Learning and Survival, he decides that he has to go there, but when he ac...
I'm a little more than half done - no idea what page number (Kindle doesn't do page numbers). The principal character's arms' length (or longer) look at life is really dominant and it is annoying, on purpose, I'm sure. Perk is dealing with a lot - the death of his father and his best friend who c...
I haven't read a book about World War I for years. Bodie Thoene wrote some which I liked but they were mostly about adults. Arthur Slade's book tells the story of Edward Bathe, a sixteen year old Canadian boy who enlists in the English military after his old brother was killed in France. Edward e...