Pub. Date: October 8th, 2013
Publisher: Flux
315 pages
Paperback
I’m a chronic note taker when I’m reading something that I will review. A subconscious tell that I absolutely love a book, is when I become so engrossed, that I completely forget to take notes. I didn’t write down a single word while reading Backward Glass.
I’m a chronic note taker when I’m reading something that I will review. A subconscious tell that I absolutely love a book, is when I become so engrossed, that I completely forget to take notes. I didn’t write down a single word while reading Backward Glass.
When Kenny Maxwell’s home flipping parents buy the old
Hollerith house – a home notorious for the disappearances of the kids that live
there – an entire series of events that have both not happened, and that are
decades old, are set into motion. In a broken down wall, Kenny finds a long
deceased baby, along with a note written specifically to him. The note asks
Kenny to change the past, by stopping Prince Harming from killing the baby. It
takes a girl, from ten years in the future, to step out of the Backwards Glass
– an old mirror that came with the house – for Kenny to get an idea of how he
could possibly prevent a death that already happened.
Backward Glass is
constructed the way a seasoned storyteller tells a story. With a clear voice,
and engaging tone, you are instantly drawn in and kept in suspense about what
will happen next. The entire time I read Backward
Glass I was working overtime to solve a puzzle whose pieces were revealed
in
