#484
Title: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Publisher: Scholastic
Year: 2007
312 pages
As some other reviewers have noted, this first in a series tries a little too hard, resulting in a jocular narrative style that detracted from my enjoyment of the story. It reads a little like Nix's Keys to the Kingdom mashed into Back to the Future with just a touch of McHale's Pendragon and Fforde's Tuesday Next thrown in. There are a lot of asides and jokes about the construction of a narrative; for some this has been a distraction, but for me, it was the highlight. The story itself is a fairly standard quest tale, though this is not a negative. I will probably read the others, so I hope the author settles into Alcatraz's voice more effectively in subsequent volumes.
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