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Angelica Banks

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(eng) Angelica Banks is a collective author name used by Danielle Wood and Heather Rose (and should not be combined with either individual author).

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Værker af Angelica Banks

Finding Serendipity (2013) 389 eksemplarer
Blueberry pancakes forever (2016) 44 eksemplarer
Finding Serendipity: Chapters 1-5 (2014) 3 eksemplarer

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Angelica Banks is a collective author name used by Danielle Wood and Heather Rose (and should not be combined with either individual author).

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The first two books in this series were light, entertaining fluff for the most part, and best suited for younger children who are more advanced readers. Blueberry Pancakes Forever took a surprising turn towards deeper substance. As the book opens, Tuesday (our heroine) and her mother Serendipity are in mourning. Tuesday's father died sometime between the previous book and this one. The first quarter of the book, as well as the conclusion, are very much about coping with the loss of a loved one. In between that, there is the same type of extremely bizarre adventure that was the hallmark of the first two volumes. I also missed Vivienne Small, who played only a bit part in this story. The conclusion was surprisingly poignant.… (mere)
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fingerpost | Feb 26, 2019 |
A fantasy adventure in the extreme... Tuesday continues her adventures ~over there,~ a magical place that only writers can visit. A world where there is a library which contains every book ever written, plus a special wing for the books that are currently being written, but remain unfinished. And every story written has its own world, a place that normally, only the author can visit, though Tuesday seems to have some special abilities in that sense.
As "A Week Without Tuesday" opens, different worlds for different books have started colliding, knocking creatures (or oceans) from one world into the next, causing chaos in all of the worlds ever made. Tuesday follows the magical story-thread to the the world of Vivienne Small, the heroine of Tuesday's mother's bestselling book series. Tuesday and Vivienne, along with Tuesday's faithful dog, Baxterr, begin their adventure to set everything right again.
What I like: All of the main characters are well crafted and quite likable. Tuesday, Vivienne, Baxterr, Tuesday's parents, her mother's assistant, Ms. Digby, and teen author Black Luckhurst, are all a pleasure to read about. The book is lightly illustrated, (about one drawing per chapter), and those illustrations are perfect for the book.
What I don't like: A fantasy world needs rules, and those rules need to make sense to the reader. Rawling's Harry Potter series is one of the best examples of this task done right. Though magic abounds in every aspect of the series, all of the magic has rules, and those rules are all clear to the reader. In the Tuesday McGillicuddy books, the setting and foundation for the plot are fantastical in the extreme. There are rules, but they are not always clear to the reader, and even when they are, some are so absurdly unbelievable, even within the setting of a fantasy book, that I was pulled out of the story and forced to roll my eyes a little at the absurdity of it.
I am one of those strange adults who reads almost exclusively YA literature. With this series, I think I would have enjoyed it much more at the age of 10 or 12, when my own mind was more pliable and willing to accept extreme absurdities.
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Markeret
fingerpost | Feb 16, 2019 |
Wonderful novel of a young girl becoming a writer. She finds herself inside her famous mother's novel, on the adventure of a lifetime.
 
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mcorbink | 7 andre anmeldelser | Jan 15, 2018 |
I really wanted to like this book a lot more than I did.
Tuesday McGillicuddy is the daughter of the most famous writer in the world. When her mother is missing, apparently having departed the house out her fourth floor window, Tuesday goes to find her... in a magical land where stories are written. She ends up getting involved with the characters from her mother's book, which is evidently a sort of Peter Pan like story with a female character in the Peter Pan role.
The fantasy elements were fun, but difficult to swallow. The more magical things there are in a book, the more difficult it is to pull off believably, and I don't think this one was terribly successful. Tuesday's personality was not well developed enough for the reader to care deeply about her.
This is the start of a series. I hope the others improve. I do like the concept and will probably read the second book to see if it gets better.
(Irrelevant side note: Vivienne Small is described as having a pointed ear on the right side but not the left. Her picture on the cover of the book is correct. In all of the illustrations within the book, it is her left ear that is pointed.)
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fingerpost | 7 andre anmeldelser | May 17, 2017 |

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29
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