Kit's Wilderness - David Almond

I was certain this book would be utterly boring, pathetic and like most failed horror books- totally awful. But, my thoughts couldn't of been more wrong. The storyline is very deep and comprehensive. I refused to believe it was a childrens book, it was just too good to be true. Metaphors, Similes and every other possible improvement on language is used, plus a few extra David Almond has decided to experiment with. Lots of sentences are bursting with brilliant describing words that is really incredible. You may find this unusual, but short sentences and simple words like said and then are used fairly regualry throughout the ...  Read the complete review

"'Used to get a laugh here long ago,' he said. 'Used to come at night as kids. Used to dance in a ring around the monument and chant the Our Father backwards. Used to say we'd see the faces of those old pit kids blooming in the dark.' He laughed. 'Bloody terrifying. Used to belt home laughing and screaming, scared half to death. Kids games, eh? What they like?'" Christopher Watson, aged thirteen, Kit, is just like his grandfather. He was born to tell stories. He was born to hear stories, to absorb them, to gather the spirits and the meanings of the past and to tell them on so that their sense and their truths will ...  Read the complete review

“ They thought we had disappeared, and they were wrong. They thought we were dead, and they were wrong. We stumbled together out of the ancient darkness into the shining valley. The sun glared down on us. The whole world glistened with ice and snow… Who could have known that we would walk together with such happiness, after all we’d been through? It started with a game, a game we played in the autumn. I played it first on the day the clocks went back.” So begins David Almond in his inimitably evocative and powerfully descriptive style. “Kit’s Wilderness” is the second of David Almond’s wonderfully ...  Read the complete review