Cricket could always see colors around objects, but she always
thought it meant there was something wrong with her. Until her birthday when Cricket's Dad gave her mother's journal to her as a gift. From the journal, she discovered that her mother saw the
colors too, meaning Cricket wasn't as odd as everyone thought. But when the colors she saw started indicating
bad and strange things, she knew something was wrong. And after a creature replaces her baby brother with aslumgwump, things really started to get out of hand. When no one else seemed to notice
the difference and Cricket was blamed for the strange happenings, she
made it her mission to put things back the way they were. Cricket must find
her brother and return him before everyone she loves, including her parents and
her best friend, turns against her and her baby brother is gone forever.
The
Slug Queen Chronicles was a great imaginative story with inventive ideas. While
it was a little heavy on details at times, Cricket is a fun and inquisitive
main character. I would have loved to have seen Cricket encounter more
difficult challenges, but she asks lots of questions that the reader is asking
right along with her. The world Cricket enters to rescue her brother, takes
things from the known world and flips them sideways that gives the book a similar feel to Alice and
Wonderland. And the illustrations at the start of every chapter are a lot of
fun. I would recommend for readers looking to escape to an imaginative world.
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