Review: #585
Title: My Diary from the Edge of the World
Series: N/A
Author: Jodi Lynn Anderson
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Comments: What starts off as just your average fantasy book becomes something amazing, magical and a real treat. My Diary from the Edge of the World takes on the form of a diary and it tells a wonderful story. Set in an alternate universe where all your fairy mythical creatures are real, from dragons to mermaids to the Earth being flat. It manages to include these creatures into the modern day perfectly that it feels believable. It still takes place in modern times, with cars, however, due to the mythical creatures being dangerous, America is sparsely populated, concentrated in towns with huge distances between them that are uninhabited. It also wraps some light pieces of quantum mechanics and string theory into its plot, creating the perfect blend of science and fantasy. In this world, when you're about to die, a Dark Cloud comes to take you away. Not wanting their youngest son to go, the family embarks on a journey through America, the pole and finally to the edge of the Earth (where the ocean just falls off the edge), and into the Extraordinary World, an alternate version of Earth without all the mythical creatures (i.e. our world). As you'd expect, the journey is filled with interesting encounters. The characters slowly warm up to you, as does the story. The events are exciting and the world is extremely fascinating. The last leg of the journey was hard to put down, as you're anticipating the end of the novel and wanting to know what they would find, and how the story would end. It became a bittersweet moment that was filled with emotion. This is a novel where you are genuinely sad that it came to an end.
Rating: 8/10