The Singular & Extraordinary Tale of Mirror & Goliath: From the Peculiar Adventures of John Lovehart, Esq., Volume 1 (Notebooks of John Loveheart, E), by Ishbelle Bee
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1888. A little girl called Mirror and her shape-shifting guardian Goliath Honeyflower are washed up on the shores of Victorian England. Something has been wrong with Mirror since the day her grandfather locked her inside a mysterious clock that was painted all over with ladybirds. Mirror does not know what she is, but she knows she is no longer human. John Loveheart, meanwhile, was not born wicked. But after the sinister death of his parents, he was taken by Mr. Fingers, the demon lord of the underworld. Some say he is mad. John would be inclined to agree. Now Mr Fingers is determined to find the little girl called Mirror, whose flesh he intends to eat, and whose soul is the key to his eternal reign. And John Loveheart has been called by his otherworldly father to help him track Mirror down...File Under: Fantasy [ Shapes Shifting / Inside the Clock / A Tasty Little Girl / 12 Dancing Princesses ]
The Singular & Extraordinary Tale of Mirror & Goliath: From the Peculiar Adventures of John Lovehart, Esq., Volume 1 (Notebooks of John Loveheart, E), by Ishbelle Bee- Amazon Sales Rank: #396150 in Books
- Brand: Bee, Ishbelle
- Published on: 2015-06-30
- Released on: 2015-06-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.75" h x .85" w x 5.12" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
About the Author Ishbelle Bee writes horror and loves fairy-tales, the Victorian period (especially top hats!) and cake tents at village fêtes. (She believes serial killers usually opt for the Victoria Sponge). She currently lives in Edinburgh. She doesn't own a rescue cat, but if she did his name would be Mr Pickles.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Weird, wicked, wonderful. By Elena Linville I fell in love with this book. Absolutely and totally. But this will also be one of the hardest reviews I've had to write so far. Not because the book is bad obviously, since I loved it, but because it's so different from anything else I've read recently. Heck, I don't even know what genre to put this book into. Gothic? Fairy tale? Horror? New weird? It's all of that and none of it at the same time. The Singular & Extraordinary Tale of Mirror & Goliath is a genre of its own, that can be summarized by three words: Weird, wicked, wonderful.First of all, this book tells several different stories, some shorter, some longer, but all of them are intertwined and influencing each other.The first story is about Mirror who is and isn't a little girl. When she was 12, her grandfather locked her inside a big clock painted with ladybirds. When Constable Goliath rescued her out of the clock several months later, she was no longer human, but something else entirely. What, nobody knows, not even her. And Goliath himself is not entirely human either. He is a shapeshifter who can become may other things, like a great big bear or a giant eagle.The second story is about Mr. Loveheart, who used to be an ordinary little boy until the day his aunt poisoned his mother, and Mr. Fingers, the king of the underworld, killed his father and took him into his domain. Now Loveheart has eyes black as tar, wears red hearts on all his clothes and isn't entirely sure that he still has a heart. He is also pretty sure that he is at least half-mad.When Mirror appears in London, Mr. Fingers sends Loveheart to find her, because he wants to eat her heart and capture the soul she holds inside her. The soul from inside the grandfather clock.This books reads like a fairy tale in parts, but not the sanitized and cheerful version of fairy tales that we got used to see from Disney. No it's the real deal, the Brothers Grim and Andersen tales where the Little Mermaid sacrifices her life to save her Prince in the end and he never even learns that she loved him.It's also part horror story, because some really horrible and macabre things happen to all the characters. I mean, the little girl who became Mirror died inside that clock before she became something else. And one of Mr. Fingers other "sons" is the famous Jack the Ripper.I loved the language in which this story is written. It's simple and clear, but beautiful and poetic at the same time. I could really see, feel and smell everything the author described. And those pictures were strangely beautiful and scary at the same time.This whole book was similar to one of those strangely vivid dreams you have sometimes. Dreams that are so real that they cling to you like smoke tendrils even after you wake up and leave you with the feeling that you had touched a secret world in your sleep.I admit that this kind of book is not for everyone. Some will probably hate it or think it's too weird for them. But I would definitely recommend it to everyone who used to love fairy tales when they were a child. My opinion: definitely a must read and re-read!PS. I had received and advanced copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Weird but Wonderful By Book Gannet I have rarely encountered a book so aptly titled as this one. Not only is it truly singular and extraordinary, it’s also unusual and unexpected. This book is also hard to describe and should probably best be read sideways with a magnifying glass viewed through a microscope that is approached with a periscope. It’s strange and whimsical, with more than a touch of horror, and absolutely revels in its Victorian setting, bringing in touches of angels and demons, mysticism, séances, Jack the Ripper, Greek mythology and Egyptian Archeology, to name just a few. It’s clever and baffling and also quite charming, in a perplexing way.I enjoyed it but I don’t think it would be for everyone. For one thing it isn’t told in a linear fashion and the multiple first person narrators have very distinctive, rambling styles – and occasionally distinctive formatting too. It’s almost as though the whole thing was split into individual chapters then shuffled up like a pack of cards to add to the confusion. The characters in the title dominate the first half of the book, but as more and more time is given to flashbacks and other characters, they get a little left behind. That’s when Loveheart takes over, and I found him both compelling and creepy and a very, very interesting.If I stop and think about it too deeply, I find that the plot has all kinds of holes in it, nothing is ever truly explained (how did the clocks work, how was the princess caught?) and really, when it comes down to it, not much is wrapped up either. But thinking too hard about this book rather spoils the illusion. There are so many facets to the story that it becomes hard to know whether even the most random of statements and side-chapters are real and important or not. Mostly it’s mysterious and confusing and compelling and intriguing and doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense, but that’s fine.If you’re looking for something different with dark humor and Gothic overtones, and aren’t too bothered by non-linear storytelling and unnecessary tangents, then you should find plenty to like here. It’s quaint and eccentric and even charming in a creepy way and thoroughly, thoroughly Victorian. One thing is for certain: I haven’t read anything else quite like it – and I’d love to read more.(I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. So much potential that is infuriatingly squandered By Karin W I generally like Angry Robot as a publisher ...and I would have liked this one if a few things hadn't left me frustrated to the point of being infuriated at the author.The book is about a little girl who experiences the trauma of her grandfather murdering her sisters and locking her in a peculiar grandfather clock. When she was rescued from this clock by Goliath, she was near dead and not the little girl she used to be. The book starts with them investigating spiritualists, psychics, etc in an effort to restore Mirror to her former self or at least put what was inside her now to peace. From there the story blossoms by introducing creeptastic villains and near villains who aren't all there, but aren't all gone either.The infuriating thing is that the story is told in very short chapters, with a point of view change at each one, and each point of view is told in the first person even when it is a character so tangential to the plot as to be appropriately relegated by any other author, if it must be included at all, to small vignettes between longer main-character chapters. In this way we have the story from not only Mirror and Mr. Loveheart's (the aforementioned near villain) perspectives (and which are easily the most interesting perspectives), but also the perspectives of the boss villain, the mini-boss villain, the boss villain's ex-wife's aunt, Goliath, Death, and several other minor characters. She crams so many perspectives into such a slim book that it ironically leaves the story untold. This could have been a five star book for me if it had stayed focused and given more time with the protagonists.
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