Book Review: The Ickabog

 

I had heard about this book before. I even remember the contest where they asked children to illustrate the book (the illustrations are wonderful, by the way). I just never picked it up. In fact, it disappeared from my radar at some point.

But then we went on vacation with some friends and my friend was reading it. She had gotten in from her birthday. She read it in one day, so I asked if she recommended it. Her reply wasn't clear, but she suggested I read it to see for myself.

So I read it, and found it to be an insufferable book. It was like reading a whole book with Dolores Umbridge as the main character. Good characters were introduced and then killed. Oh yes, many many people die in this book. And no matter what the good people do, bad things kept happening to them. 

I began to lose hope. But I continued reading this well plotted story with wonderful language until I got to the end. And the end was just and fair, or as much as it could have been. At least it didn't leave a bad taste in my mouth.

I still give it five stars because of the story and the way everything was put together and how easy the book was to read. But it did make me suffer because I can't stand seeing people being treated unfairly and this book had a lot of that. And a lot of death.

So there you go. My two scents on J.K. Rowling's The Ickabog.

Cheers!

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