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A review by asimilarkite
Mountain of Bones by Christopher Krovatin
3.0
If you ever thought, "Hmm, you know what I need? I need a book that's a combination of Night of the Living Dead, Evil Dead, and Blair Witch Project. Except I need it to be appropriate for a 4th grader. Yep, that's what I need," this is the book for you.
Basically, it's hugely obvious that Christopher Krovatin is a HUGE horror movie nerd, and wanted to bring the joy of horror movies to the upper elementary/middle-school set. Which is kinda awesome.
There is nothing mind-blowingly awesome about this book, really, but it was fun. It would make a great book talk. Witches and zombies and 6th-graders and potential for a series (it better be a series -- I am actually kind of more excited by the potential than I was by this set up). I would recommend it to my hordes (hehe) of zombie-loving middle-schoolers, because it has hordes of zombies. I am not sure that the switching perspectives (every third chapter is by narrated by a different character) was entirely necessary, but it didn't really get in the way, either. Fun, spooky, gory page-turningness.
Basically, it's hugely obvious that Christopher Krovatin is a HUGE horror movie nerd, and wanted to bring the joy of horror movies to the upper elementary/middle-school set. Which is kinda awesome.
There is nothing mind-blowingly awesome about this book, really, but it was fun. It would make a great book talk. Witches and zombies and 6th-graders and potential for a series (it better be a series -- I am actually kind of more excited by the potential than I was by this set up). I would recommend it to my hordes (hehe) of zombie-loving middle-schoolers, because it has hordes of zombies. I am not sure that the switching perspectives (every third chapter is by narrated by a different character) was entirely necessary, but it didn't really get in the way, either. Fun, spooky, gory page-turningness.