Stranger Things Happen
by Kelly Link
Taste attributes: fantasyscience fictionhorrorcomedyfastfresh & originalimaginarylinearglossyemotive & stirringsolving the riddle/not as it seemsunlikely connectionsfish out of water/culture clash
Boxlist takeAn otherworldly, inventive fantasy novel, glossy rather than gritty. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: very fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: very glossy · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
Open Library rating
3.8 / 5
8 ratings
About This Book
This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve the case of the tap-dancing bank robbers. A librarian falls in love with a girl whose father collects artificial noses.
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- Author
- Kelly Link
- Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 266
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- Source
- Open Library
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