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A review by amyeewing
The Curse of the Blue Figurine by John Bellairs
4.0
Loved John Bellairs when I was younger so I'm introducing my 7 year old to his works starting with this one. It was actually better than I remember it. We follow young Johnny Dixon in an appropriately Gothic New England setting (he attends a Catholic school and hangs out in the church of course) as he discovered a maybe/maybe not cursed object and begins experiencing some rather creepy maybe/maybe not supernatural happenings.
I didn't realize how great the language was at setting the scene until I was reading this book aloud. Bellairs does a fantastic job of setting the scene and keeping the tension high but also being approachable for young readers. My son gasped in all the right places and loved the suspense.
We also made a sacher torte as mentioned in the book. It was just as yummy as the book described.
We're going to move on to The Mummy, The Will, and the Crypt now with high hopes.
I didn't realize how great the language was at setting the scene until I was reading this book aloud. Bellairs does a fantastic job of setting the scene and keeping the tension high but also being approachable for young readers. My son gasped in all the right places and loved the suspense.
We also made a sacher torte as mentioned in the book. It was just as yummy as the book described.
We're going to move on to The Mummy, The Will, and the Crypt now with high hopes.