Books of Magic: Girl in Box

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Summary: Watch what you dissin'!
Review: I first started reading the Books of Magic series about a year ago. I love this comic and thought the Girl in the Box was just as good as any other. This book disserves 5 stars.

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Summary: Horrible Writing
Review: Neil Gaiman, who started this series off, is pure genius. Now that his name was on the books, it was passed to a not-so-good writer and a not-so-good artist. Accepting the slight drop in quality, I enjoyed Bindings, Reckonings, and Summonings... but THIS one was incredibly bad. The story takes random senseless turns, and while attempting to be incredibly deep it weaves a senseless truthless tale with no rhyme or reason to it. Such highlights include the English boy traveling to America where he finds these horrible American stereotypes speaking slang with every word, badly, and making dumb puns about rapping. Overall it's a stab at the depth of Gaiman that sees only the wild weirdness without understanding the rules of the game, and at times making mundane human wisdom seem smarter than that of all the worlds of fantasy. If you enjoyed the Books of Magic so far, dont ruin the experience by buying this book.

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Summary: Running through the rain with an umbrella of fire.
Review: Obviously not up to the standard Gaiman started out with in the Books of Magic mini-series, but then again it was not expected to be. Only Gaiman can write like Gaiman. The plot is a little hap-hazard and it has a few confusing moments. The significance of Tim's dueling tatoos, what exactly happened to Cupid, what happened to that director guy... there are a lot of plot threads that are totally abandoned or unexplained. But the magic of the story is still in there somewhere. It may not be seen in the monsters and mermaids and fairys. The magic in the book is the beautiful way Tim and Leah and Molly's goofy adolescence is perfectly portrayed (even if Leah is several thousand years old). Good. Not Gaiman good. But good.

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Summary: girl in the box
Review: the strength of the books of magic fades slightly as you dig farther into the series,but eventually it delivers a wonderful story.

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Summary: Nonetheless A Good Read
Review: When I started reading the series, I thought that the Books of Magic were really great. The illustrations, the storyline, the depth in a graphic novel that is rare in comic books nowadays. When I worked my way to _The Girl in the Box_ , the quality that the previous issues had was slightly tattered, and the story was not so fascinating, but all in all, it's still a great book.