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Title: Wax
Author: Gina Damico
Narrator: Erin Spencer
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-28-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes
Genres: Teens, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Publisher's Summary:
Paraffin, Vermont, is home to the Grosholtz Candle Factory. There, 17-year-old Poppy finds something dark and unsettling: a room filled with dozens of startlingly lifelike wax sculptures. Later, she's shocked when one of the figures - a teenage boy who doesn't seem to know what he is - jumps naked and screaming out of the trunk of her car. Poppy wants to return him to the factory, but before she can, a fire destroys the mysterious workshop. With the help of the wax boy, who answers to the name Dud, Poppy tries to find out who was behind the fire. Along the way she discovers that some of the townspeople are starting to look a little...waxy. Can they extinguish the evil plot?
Cover design by Lisa Vega. Cover image by Steve Gardner.
Members Reviews:
Some Hilarity, some Slightly Scary and a Whole lot of Weird
This was odd.
It is really outside my normal wheelhouse as it is a bit comedy and a little bit horrorlite/mystery.
The short of it is let's just say that a Wax boy comes to life and helps a social media sensation (not in a good way but in an 'I'll be in therapy the rest of my life because my most embarrassing moment went viral' way) and her theater group save the town from wax copies replacing main members of the small town.
There is some hilarity, some slightly scary and a whole lot of weird.
It's John Green stretched to include mild horror/supernatural elements--which isn't as good as it
One of those current books for young readers straining really hard for humor and ending up just silly. It's John Green stretched to include mild horror/supernatural elements--which isn't as good as it sounds
Crazy and scary work well together
This book was a lot of fun, and sometimes that's exactly what you're looking for. The characters were well-realized and imperfect, so that even the ones that were annoying (I kinda wanted to smack best friend Jill) worked together to make the story come to life.
The ridiculousness of the storyline is established early in the book, and the writing makes it easy to just go with it. I really enjoyed the characters' frantic attempts to save their town, and didn't find myself questioning their efforts in such a crazy alternate reality.
I've enjoyed Damico's other books, and this one made me want to go back and reread her previous work.
Three Stars
Preteens would love it!
If Gilmore Girls met Goosebumps...
I am new to the works of Gina Damico, but after "Wax," consider me a big fan. I read a hundred or more books each year, and every so often there's a real standout, the kind of book that it is a pleasure to read and one you hope might never end. "Wax," a children's mystery-thriller (ages 12 and up, so says the book) is an unlikely candidate for the affections of a late-30s parent of two, but it really is an awesome book. It has a little bit of everything: humor, suspense, genuine horrors, adventure, really colorful characters, and lots of great literary, theatrical, and historical references.
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Title: Wax
Author: Gina Damico
Narrator: Erin Spencer
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-28-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes
Genres: Teens, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Publisher's Summary:
Paraffin, Vermont, is home to the Grosholtz Candle Factory. There, 17-year-old Poppy finds something dark and unsettling: a room filled with dozens of startlingly lifelike wax sculptures. Later, she's shocked when one of the figures - a teenage boy who doesn't seem to know what he is - jumps naked and screaming out of the trunk of her car. Poppy wants to return him to the factory, but before she can, a fire destroys the mysterious workshop. With the help of the wax boy, who answers to the name Dud, Poppy tries to find out who was behind the fire. Along the way she discovers that some of the townspeople are starting to look a little...waxy. Can they extinguish the evil plot?
Cover design by Lisa Vega. Cover image by Steve Gardner.
Members Reviews:
Some Hilarity, some Slightly Scary and a Whole lot of Weird
This was odd.
It is really outside my normal wheelhouse as it is a bit comedy and a little bit horrorlite/mystery.
The short of it is let's just say that a Wax boy comes to life and helps a social media sensation (not in a good way but in an 'I'll be in therapy the rest of my life because my most embarrassing moment went viral' way) and her theater group save the town from wax copies replacing main members of the small town.
There is some hilarity, some slightly scary and a whole lot of weird.
It's John Green stretched to include mild horror/supernatural elements--which isn't as good as it
One of those current books for young readers straining really hard for humor and ending up just silly. It's John Green stretched to include mild horror/supernatural elements--which isn't as good as it sounds
Crazy and scary work well together
This book was a lot of fun, and sometimes that's exactly what you're looking for. The characters were well-realized and imperfect, so that even the ones that were annoying (I kinda wanted to smack best friend Jill) worked together to make the story come to life.
The ridiculousness of the storyline is established early in the book, and the writing makes it easy to just go with it. I really enjoyed the characters' frantic attempts to save their town, and didn't find myself questioning their efforts in such a crazy alternate reality.
I've enjoyed Damico's other books, and this one made me want to go back and reread her previous work.
Three Stars
Preteens would love it!
If Gilmore Girls met Goosebumps...
I am new to the works of Gina Damico, but after "Wax," consider me a big fan. I read a hundred or more books each year, and every so often there's a real standout, the kind of book that it is a pleasure to read and one you hope might never end. "Wax," a children's mystery-thriller (ages 12 and up, so says the book) is an unlikely candidate for the affections of a late-30s parent of two, but it really is an awesome book. It has a little bit of everything: humor, suspense, genuine horrors, adventure, really colorful characters, and lots of great literary, theatrical, and historical references.