Luck Uglies Book Review

Name of Reviewer: Sindhu

Title of Book: The Luck Uglies

Author of Book: Paul Durham

# of pages: 387

# AR points: 12                                               RL: 5.5

https://www.amazon.com/Luck-Uglies-Paul-Durham/dp/0062271512/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

           

            In a quaint, little cottage there lives an unusual, risk taking, little girl named Riley O’Chantler with her peculiar mother, who keeps a knife called Fair Warning in a sheath strapped to her thigh- don’t worry, that knife is used for cutting vegetables. . . mostly.  Riley’s little sister, Lottie, who is impossible to potty train, also lives with them and is a bit odd.  Riley had a father who supposedly was a solider and went to Beyond the Shale, a land that people get sucked into and once there, never return home.  Riley has a close encounter with a Bog Noblin, a huge, ugly, creature who eats children and collects their feet.  I loved The Luck Uglies because it was full of fantasy and adventure, drawing the reader’s imagination into a whole new world with Bog Noblins and mean kings.  If I were the author, I would better describe Beyond the Shale so that the reader would understand it clearly.  If I were Rye, I would most definitely make a hasty retreat instead of standing with my feet fixed to the ground and screaming when a Bog Noblin was about to eat me.  If I had to pick a word to describe this book, it would be fantasy because the tales in this book could never happen in real life . . . or could they?  I strongly recommend The Luck Uglies to you if you are the type of person to enjoy a little bit of terror mixed with mischief and adventure.