The Hunchback Assignments
General Audience:
Young Adult
Genre:
Series :
The Hunchback Assignments
Call Number:
YA- Fiction
Features:
Average sized, normal font, adequate amount of white space, easy to read
Cover Notes :
Mysterious attractive cover, can tell that there is going to be a large element of mystery and suspense in the book, rather dark
Blurb Notes:
Dark and sinister... Mystery combined with supernatural elements...
Beginning, Middle, & End :
Beginning - engulfs the reader with curiosity to understand more about he mysterious shape shifting infant... mysterious
Middle - similar to the beginning, especially similar to the second chapter onwards
End - rather neatly wrapped up, but more books will be coming in the series
Style :
Serious, mysterious, but does have lighter moments
Pacing :
Medium paced
Format :
Third person narrative
Characters :
Modo, Mr. Socrates, Octavia Milkweed
Setting :
Victorian London
Theme :
Mystery, fantasy, adventure, conspiracy
Focus :
Character driven
Read-a-Likes :
The Dark Deeps, Empire of Ruins (by Arthur Slader), The Grimm Legacy (by Polly Shulman), Star-crossed (by Elizabeth C. Bunce), A Spy in the House (by Ying S. Lee)
Hook :
What's better than a combination of mystery and the supernatural? A good read...
Brief Annotation :
Modo, who has the ability to shape-shift, was rescued as an infant from a traveling freak show by a mysterious gentleman named Mr. Socrates. He is trained to become a secret agent and takes up his first assignment at the age of fourteen.
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