Review: Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos
Title: Theodosia and the Serpents of ChaosAuthor: R.L. LaFevers
Category: Fiction, Children's
Rating: 4/5
Summary: 11-year-old Theodosia Throckmorton spends most of her time in an antiquities museum run by her father, while her mother goes on long archaeological expeditions to obtain artifacts for the museum. But Theo can see something on these artifacts that nobody else seems to—they're infected with ancient Egyptian curses, and they'll hurt her family if she doesn't take matters into her own hands.
Review: I loved this book!
My first clue I was going to love it was the dedication: "To clever girls everywhere who get tired of feeling like no one's listening."
Theo is nothing if not a clever little girl. But she's also deliciously sassy, which kept me chuckling throughout the book.
The book is set in London in the early twentieth century, and I'm a sucker for British language in a children's book (thank you, J.K. Rowling)—lots of "bother" and "boiled cabbage" and "don't give a fig."
I gobbled this book up as fast as I could, and now I have to wait until the library gets copies of the next book in the series, Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris. It just so happens to release today, but the store-release-to-library-shelving interval will keep me waiting for at least a couple weeks. Bother.
Labels: book reviews, kids' fiction
posted by Kelly @ 12:33 PM
4 Comments:
HOW do you read so many books!?!?!? I am jealous!
Haha, you are the second person to say that today!
Here is the secret to reading a lot of books: Be a dork. Seriously, it works.
When eating meals, eat by yourself with your nose in a book. Do not socialize. Socializing is for the unread, unwashed masses.
When feeding your beautiful baby girl (or dog, as the case may be), do not pay attention to her. Instead, read a book. She will learn that fiction is more interesting than real life, which is the truth anyway.
Turn your nose up at the TV. Friends reruns might give you a chuckle here or there, but what self-respecting DORK would be caught dead watching sitcom reruns?!
And finally, when you should be sleeping because the alarm will go off at 6 am and it is 1:28 am, sneak in a few more paragraphs. Sleep is overrated. Or at least, you can start to believe it is if you deny yourself enough of it.
This book looks so fun! I'm going to have to get to the Georgetown library and try it out!
Cool, let me know what you think of it!
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