Meshed in with all of this adventure is some of Clive’s artwork, each chapter opens and closes with a drawing by Barker. I won’t completely ruin the ending, but it was a battle that held me on the edge of my seat. This is where Clive builds the story up beautifully to a final battle between Harvey and Mr. Hood and his Holiday House, Harvey and Wendell head back to beat Mr. How can he possibly get those years back that he lost? Harvey comes face to face with his aged parents, old enough now to be grandparents, and I nearly lose it. Each day that the boys had spent in the Holiday House was a year in the real world. But they broke through, they made it, they parted ways and headed home, then Clive broke my heart. My heart pounded as Harvey and Wendell attempt their first escape, it seems as though they won’t make it, that the mist will somehow turn them around at the very last moment. As the story moves with Harvey you realize he’s a fairly smart kid, unlike poor Wendell who keeps being lured back in by the Holiday House when Harvey has figured out that they are under some sort of a spell after the disappearance of Lulu. You begin to fear for poor Harvey Swick who merely wanted an adventure to alleviate his boring February. The book is an easy read as it flows so well, The Holiday House has just the right amount of joy at first before something starts to sour it all, it creeps up on you, that feeling that something just isn’t quite right. The way that he is able to weave a story that incorporates adventure and horror within a tale suitable for a child is amazing. But as always with Clive Barker’s work, I was pleasantly surprised.

I was a little skeptical about reading a young adult book by Clive (the man who wrote The Hellbound Heart wrote a children’s book…Really?).

Urn:oclc:703016376 Scandate 20110422135429 Scanner the latest news from Clive Barker’s site about there now being a director (Oliver Parker!) appointed for a Thief of Always movie, I thought it was only appropriate to review the book now. OL16030184W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 86.28 Pages 294 Ppi 643 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1932382690 Urn:lcp:thiefofalways00bark:epub:4e61d684-0ca6-410c-9a1e-d3e7ddeff478 Extramarc The Indiana University Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier thiefofalways00bark Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9863ch45 Isbn 0061091464ĩ780061091469 Lccn 92053428 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition

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