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Curious Toys
Curious Toys
Author: Elizabeth Hand
In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park, looking for trouble. — Unbeknownst to the well-heeled city-dwellers and visitors who come to enjoy the midway, the park is also host to a ruthless killer who ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780316485913
ISBN-10: 0316485918
Publication Date: 9/1/2020
Pages: 400
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4 stars, based on 1 rating
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 6
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dragoneyes avatar reviewed Curious Toys on + 885 more book reviews
For most part there were many things to love about this book. One of them was the setting. I really felt transformed to the early 1900's. So much so that I found myself watching silent movies and playing music from that time period. Also, there were things that I didn't know about... Infant incubators, Chaplin's background, etc. I found myself researching and learning about new things. The other great thing was the characters. There were some really great ones. Especially Pin and eventually Henry. The biggest problem that I had was there seemed to be a lot of page filler. There were too many times were I thought that a chapter was unnecessary or times when my mind started to wander. The beginning was great and the ending (especially the very end) was also great. The in-between could of been shortened up a bit. All in all an excellent book.


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