The Marbury Lens
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Call Number: Teen Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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Downtown Teen, 1st Floor 4-week checkout |
Teen Fiction | 4-week checkout | On Shelf |
After being kidnapped and barely escaping, sixteen-year-old Jack goes to London with his best friend Connor, where someone gives him a pair of glasses that send him to an alternate universe where war is raging, he is responsible for the survival of two younger boys, and Connor is trying to kill them all.
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a solid series submitted by unknown on July 30, 2013, 10:28pm I like these books.
Truly Fantastic, though graphic
submitted by thartj on July 8, 2018, 3:33pm
I sometimes feel guilty about how stingy I am with five-star reviews. I give them, but a story really needs to be fairly flawless AND suck me in—so both well executed AND my thing… But once in a while a book like this will come along that makes me feel like I need to go back and downgrade 90% of my fives because it is just head and shoulders above sublime.
This book is not for the faint hearted. There is swearing, a bit of sexual violence and a lot of teen deviance. But harder than that, this is very dark emotionally so it is probably not the thing for some people. But for others, it is EXACTLY the thing.
The story set-up reminded me a lot of The Talisman, one of my favorites from two of my favorite scary authors—Stephen King and Peter Straub. In both books there are parallel worlds in which people can exist in both and the MC is pushed into a position of going back and forth, but I felt while The Talisman is a brilliant show to watch externally, The Marbury Lens actually pulls us inside so we feel it. And the REAL world in Marbury Lens is more real and the OTHER world is darker… I just really feel like Smith upped the ante on the type of tale.
PUBLISHED
New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 358 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 720
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780312613426
0312613423
SUBJECTS
Emotional problems -- Fiction.
Kidnapping -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
Horror stories.
London (England) -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.