Impossible Creatures Book Reviews, By: Sofija N.

NOTE: THIS ARTICLE HAS ONE SPOILER. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Many people might have heard of the book Impossible Creatures, by Katherine Rundell. It takes place in some islands called the Archipelago, which is on this Earth, but hidden by some magic called the glimourie. The book has a 4.5 star rating on Amazon and the ratings seem like the readers liked them. 

“Fantastically exuberant. It made me want to yell, or laugh, or bite something.” - Neil Gaiman, author of War Horse.

“An absolute WOW of a book. Utterly enchanting and full of wonder. Readers are in for a treat!” - Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of Ink & Stars.

The Washington Post said, “Katherine is her generation’s J.R.R. Tolkien.”

“An astonishing miracle of a book.” - Katherine Applegate, author of The One and Only Ivan.

As the author of this article, I like the book so far. As of writing this, I am only on page 99, so nowhere near the end of the 358-page book. But the book has really cool creatures that some might have never even heard of, and also some cool action parts where you’re wondering if the characters are going to end up dying or not.

However, there are some negative reviews, such as: “So bad. So very bad. The author loved to use semicolons, and yet at least a quarter of them were used incorrectly (as if they were a comma, like: "I went to the store for apples and milk; and bananas.")”

Or, “The writing headed really close to purple as well ("the infinitely fragile night") or just plain cliche ("[She was] so beautiful that he forgot, for a moment, the logistics of how to breathe.").”

I don’t really know what purple means in this comment, but that’s fine. So while bad reviews do exist, most people do think that the book is good. Me as a reader, I would recommend this, and I also kind of hope that the people that I tried to interview on their thoughts on the book but none of them read the book, would read the book.