The Tricksters
by Margaret Mahy
Taste attributes: familyfantasydramateenimaginarysimplelinearglossyemotive & stirringcomplex relationshiptroubled leadssolving the riddle/not as it seems
Boxlist takeHeightened and glossy: a family novel that is balanced on everything else. Best if you like polish over grit.
Taste details
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: glossy · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
Open Library rating
3.0 / 5
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About This Book
While gathered together for the Christmas holiday, a large New Zealand family and their various guests and hangers-on find their lives suddenly invaded by three fascinating but rather sinister brothers and by New Year nothing is the same again.
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- Author
- Margaret Mahy
- Published
- 1986
- Pages
- 269
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- Open Library
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