Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson
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Web ID: 15414850Alcatraz vs the Evil Librarians
Reader’s Notes: – this originally released in 2007, but has been updated and rereleased – this is told from 13-year-old Alcatraz’s point of view – this is book one of a series Review: This is my first Brandon Sanderson book and I loved it! I enjoyed reading the story as if it was being narrated by Alcatraz. Which meant it included: random comments on what happened/was going to happen, a bit of unreliability on if what he was saying was true, as well as humorous sarcastic comments on what he was learning about the world around him. I also really liked how each Smedry has their own special Talent (I thought of them as powers) and that they were so odd yet it still worked! It made everything a little extra entertaining with Grandpa Smedry being odd and nonchalant about different things that people should freak out about. But not him, no, he’d even greet the situation with a smile! I also enjoyed looking at the different pictures included alongside the story. It helped me better picture some of the different characters and what everything looked like. Summary: Alcatraz Smedry is an orphan who has been bounced from foster home to foster home due to having a talent for accidentally breaking things. He thought that his parents only left him his name, but on his 13th birthday, he finds a package in the mail addressed to him. And in it is a bag of sand. Talk about weird parents, first the name and now a worthless inheritance. Or maybe not so worthless? The sand is stolen by evil librarians (at least that’s what a man claiming to be Grandpa Smedry tells Alcatraz) and they need to get the sands back. Using special colored glasses, Grandpa Smedry, Alcatraz, two cousins, and a girl are able to follow the trail through the downtown library. But what is so important about these sands? Why hasn’t Alcatraz heard of a grandfather before? And what’s with these glasses? Find out in the adventure that is Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians!
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Hilarious read!
This book was SO much fun!! I am selfishly glad the entire series is actually out already, and is just getting (got?) rebranded and reillustrated--means I can just keep reading without interruption! (Okay, except by maybe...real life, haha.) Confession: This is my first Brandon Sanderson read. But, I'm no stranger to the sci-fi/fantasy genre, or comic-cons for that matter, and Sanderson's name is ever present in both arenas. So I was really excited to find this, and thought it'd be a great introduction to his works (before diving into the 500-page tomes he freely admits in-book to be his norm). Yep, that assessment was spot on. On all the levels. :) The book is funny--I regularly caught myself literally laughing out loud, and was glad I wasn't commuting while I read (cue the funny looks; been there done that)--clever, and original. And the illustrations are perfect! I can't wait to dive into the subsequent books and follow more of Alcatraz's adventures. 4/5 stars. I received an eARC of the book from the publisher via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.
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