My Thoughts:
I think I got the story on the first read, but after I finished, when I read the synopsis from the publisher, then I was able to really focus in on the parts of the story that were important. In other words, I let go of the weird skips in the story that were bothering me. One reviewer said to read this like a series of episodes and that made much more sense because the gist is below, but the reader is left with many more questions and it is ok, because perhaps they are saved for the next episode.
What makes this a 4 out of 5 star book, though is that the weird girl gets redeemed and is the hero. But more than that, the art. . . Sandoval's art is hauntingly beautiful. The loneliness seeps off the page. Who needs questions answered when there is art.
From the Publisher:
Lisa is a lonely girl who enjoys wandering nature and collecting odd bones and pebbles. The other kids think she’s kinda weird, maybe a witch, and avoid her. When one day she discovers a tree that allows passage to a parallel world, she finds herself in the middle of a demonic invasion plot, faced with saving the very children who ridiculed her.
In this magical tale (set in the same world as WATERSNAKES), Tony Sandoval takes readers back to his world of mysterious adolescence and surreal beauty. Like WATERSNAKES, and DOOMBOY before it, the reader is faced with recognizable feelings of solitude and longing mixed with danger and adventure through a visual wonderland.
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