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A review by wrentheblurry
How to Catch a Bogle by Catherine Jinks
2.0
Disclosure: I stopped at chapter 17, about halfway through the book. I had been reading it aloud to my 12 year old son, who says that he would give it 3.5 stars, though he finds it difficult to rate a book midway through. He will continue reading it on his own.
The premise of a young girl helping a man, a professional Bogler, to catch nasty beasts for profit appealed to me, though the writing style did not. Maybe it was how the characters spoke that I found off-putting, though it's likely historically accurate. Had I been reading it on a Kindle, I would have many words to look up, and that's not really a bad thing. As it stands, I was too lazy to pause the reading, get off the couch and go look the words up.
Maybe I couldn't help but compare it to the much better written book, [b:The Screaming Staircase|13555073|The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)|Jonathan Stroud|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1369670906s/13555073.jpg|19125429]. I just didn't care about the characters, I fell asleep while reading way too often, I wasn't excited to read it every night, and I kept forgetting who was who, and...meh.
The premise of a young girl helping a man, a professional Bogler, to catch nasty beasts for profit appealed to me, though the writing style did not. Maybe it was how the characters spoke that I found off-putting, though it's likely historically accurate. Had I been reading it on a Kindle, I would have many words to look up, and that's not really a bad thing. As it stands, I was too lazy to pause the reading, get off the couch and go look the words up.
Maybe I couldn't help but compare it to the much better written book, [b:The Screaming Staircase|13555073|The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)|Jonathan Stroud|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1369670906s/13555073.jpg|19125429]. I just didn't care about the characters, I fell asleep while reading way too often, I wasn't excited to read it every night, and I kept forgetting who was who, and...meh.