Key the Steampunk Vampire Girl and the Dungeon of Despair
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3.8 • 12 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Key had a very happy life on a farm — until her ninth birthday, when she lost her mom and dad, was changed into a vampire, and was ushered to the City of the Dead where she was thrown into the Dungeon of Despair. Key is now imprisoned for the rest of her immortal life in darkness, loneliness, and emptiness. But hope is not lost when Key is befriended by a ghost, a witch, and an immortal puppy. Through friendship, Key must learn that she herself is the key to freedom from Despair. Brought to life with the dazzling artwork of Raven Quinn, Becket - assistant to New York Times bestselling author Anne Rice - shares with you an enchanting world of vampire castles, glowing flowers, Crinomatics, and mostly dead Mystical Creatures.
Customer Reviews
Condescending & Disjointed
Fantasies, even more than “real world” stories, must make sense to be readable. This one does not and is not. The little girl’s parents raise sheep and grow wheat, and they let her run through the wheat with the sheep? No wonder they’re poor. Before she is 9 years old the little girl is so good at baking and weaving that queens and presidents visit? Wait, are they still poor?
This may be a Pilgrim’s Progress for 5 year olds, but Tom the Water Baby is a much better written moral allegory for children. Yes, fantastic and impossible things happen in both stories; however, in one story the characters have reasons for their behavior.
I could go on, but why bother?