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I am not sure what the story was to teach a young person. The store is dark and creepy and not in a scaring Halloween way. What I got was a mix of Alice in Wonderland and someone ON ACID TRIP.
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I was excepting a cute Christmas time story. You have to be JOKING, This story should NOT be to I'm not sure if this will be one of those. Many of the books in my Audible Library I've listened to more than once. Worth the credit to listen, but as you can tell, I was disappointed. From a technical standpoint, some of the narrative and spoken parts are impossible to understand because of either the musical score, the noises that are part of the story, and the accents, tone, and timber of the voices. Rowling is going to struggle with for the rest of her career. Don't think you're going to get anything in this story that harkens back to the cleverness of the Harry Potter novels, which I would imagine J.K. Is it a good story from a good storyteller? Yes, but not so engrossing that I did not want to turn it off. It seems more suitable for a Halloween setting than Christmas. or rather having the "livening" part sucked out and consumed, and then the remains burnt. About a third of the way through the story, I actually googled the age recommendation for the book, which Amazon says is "Recommended for ages 9-10 and up because there are some bigger life concepts that younger ones may not grasp." Yes, life concepts, certainly - along with the concept of being violently captured, dragged off to the monster's lair, and then eaten by the monster. It's not that there are none of the heartwarming moments promised in the synopsis ("A heartwarming adventure about one child’s love for his most treasured thing and how far he will go to find it."), there are just many, many more scary or frightening moments and quite a few that are downright violent. Then a lost item was violently shoved kicking and screaming down a garbage chute, and that was the last I considered that. The story got off to a great start, and in the first few chapters, I was thinking about buying the book to read to some of my grandkids during the holidays - perhaps a new annual tradition, or perhaps letting them listen to the Audible book on my phone. I thought this one was going to be a page-turner for me. More Scary & Violent Than "Heartwarming Adventure"