Monday, September 22, 2014

The Mostly True Story of Jack

by Kelly Barnhill

Jack is a person who just doesn't get noticed. In fact, he feels invisible most of the time. When his parents split up, he goes to Iowa to live with his aunt and uncle, and his life gets even weirder. Letters home always end up back in the mailbox, and it seems his parents are finding him easy to forget. Unfortunately, he does get noticed by the town bully. Soon he realizes he's fighting more than a local bully, as he begins to investigate the town's overabundance of missing children. Can Jack win against an ancient soul-stealing evil, or will he lose his in the process?

I'm not sure what to say about this book. It started out great, but for me, it got confusing and convoluted pretty quickly. The characters all blended together, and I had a hard time keeping them straight. If you really love quirky, weird, mysteries, this might be for you, but it was hard for me to finish.

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