Ann M. (boochicken) reviewed The Eyeball Collector (Tales from the Sinister City, Bk 3) on + 33 more book reviews
The book reads like a Tim Burton film. The setting was described with such easy grace that it rolls out seamlessly in your minds eyes. You picture greyish buildings in a bed of foggy 18-19th century Europe, with a gothic flavor. The places are fictional which allows your imagination to run.
You follow a boy of a wealthy wine maker, with special expertise about butterflies. But because of the evil schemes of a one-eyed man, the winemaker lost his business and eventually the boy became an orphan. Then the story follows the boy in his effort to exact revenge, but in the end there's a conflict in the boys heart between fulfilling his desire for revenge or learning to let go.
The story takes you into the home of one of the towns most filthy rich, ridiculously, obscenely, twistedly rich people, and the depths of their depravity is so horrible, you just have to read it and be disgusted.
This was an AWESOME book, I've read two of Higgin's books, and both are so rich, different, unlike anything anything I've read.
You follow a boy of a wealthy wine maker, with special expertise about butterflies. But because of the evil schemes of a one-eyed man, the winemaker lost his business and eventually the boy became an orphan. Then the story follows the boy in his effort to exact revenge, but in the end there's a conflict in the boys heart between fulfilling his desire for revenge or learning to let go.
The story takes you into the home of one of the towns most filthy rich, ridiculously, obscenely, twistedly rich people, and the depths of their depravity is so horrible, you just have to read it and be disgusted.
This was an AWESOME book, I've read two of Higgin's books, and both are so rich, different, unlike anything anything I've read.
