They are feared, persecuted, hunted down, even by their own familiesĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 10:01:00 Boxid IA1939813 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier But there are some who can't help resisting - some on whom the book simply doesn't work. Now the book has been widely published and Britain has fallen.
Written by a dark occultist, it put those who read it under an irresistible spell, spiriting away their minds to a beautiful but sinister fairytale realm. And they're going to be classics.Months ago, a strange old book surfaced in a British town. Look, just read Dancing Jax and then this book, okay? They're incredibly, amazingly, stunningly good reads. On top of everything, one of them is a spy, reporting all that happens to Jangler and the Ismus. One of them has the power to throw the Ismus' plans into disarray, but first they have to survive. These children have all suffered much already, but for them the real pain is about to begin. It's a tale of those who are immune - who won't succumb to the book or the fruit. And then have nightmares, probably.)įreax and Rejex takes place in a UK that's been taken over by the DJ phenomenon.
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I almost wrote 'children's fiction,' but this series is seriously dark and twisted, and not really for younger children. Robin Jarvis has surpassed himself and become a huge figure on the fiction stage.
If you've not yet read this, then stick it in your basket right now and prepare for a treat. If you're looking to buy this, then presumably you've read the first book in the series, Dancing Jax. This is an utter, unblemished, perfect treasure that I only wish I had a tree to climb up again, so I could read it like I did when I was a kid. Every page of it made me gasp at the rich, deep language that nobody other than Jarvis can use. The closing chapters are so sad, shocking and brilliant that I think this book should be mandatory reading for any teen who's felt hopeless and helpless and in need of a friend.
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It reminded me initially of those camps poor LGBT kids are sent to in America to "fix" them (and like those camps, results in zero success) and soon afterwards descends into full on concentration camp equivalency for anybody who refuses to (or can't) conform to what it means to be part of society. Above all else, each of his characters become fully fleshed-out humans who you grow to love and care about (and when they die - and a lot of them do die, it hurts.)Īt first the camp these poor kids are sent to seems terrible, but bearable. I found them initially too stereotypical: celebrity wannabe, sporty jock, chubby comic, but as the book progresses you realise that Jarvis has already second guessed you and will in turns make heroes out of villains and villains out of the last person you could imagine. The group of youngsters we're introduced to in this book did not at first fill me with confidence. The first book is terrific, the second book is a work of sublime mastery, the likes of which I don't think I've ever encountered in my life of reading books - a life I owe in no small part to Robin Jarvis himself, for making books such a fun way to spend your time. Almost out of the blue I found myself looking him up one day, as a 35 year old man, to see what he'd been up to and my goodness, he's been doing a lot.įreax and Rejex is the second book in the Dancing Jax series. Over the years I devoured the Whitby Trilogy, the Deptford Mice and others and then I grew up and started reading the Classics and then later the stuff that was aimed for me as an adult, but I never forgot Robin or the wonderful gift he had given me as a child. I spent a glorious two weeks sitting in the big tree in my garden reading until my legs went sore, or it started to rain (whichever came sooner in Cornwall.) He transported me through time and space to worlds an already imaginative child could never have even dreamed of and did so with words so delicious but efficient with their usage that I actually found myself so lost in his words I forgot I was supported by a tree branch and dropped to the ground like a stone more than once! I first became aware of Robin Jarvis when, as an eleven year old boy the mobile library rolled into my rural village and I found a book with such an arresting image on its cover, I immediately knew it was the one for me.
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