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First Escape (Dopple Ganger Chron V1)
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Item Description...
Overview
At their orphanage life is trouble for twins Sadie and Saskia Dopple and their friend Erik Morrissey Ganger, but when a mysterious woman adopts Saskia and takes her to a mansion filled with secrets, Sadie and Erik escape the orphanage to save her.
Publishers Description
From the best-selling author of "Shadowmancer" comes an enthralling new series of illustra-novellas. "The First Escape" is the first book in the Dopple Ganger Chronicles, a six-book series following three children--Sadie and Saskia Dopple and Erik Morrissey Ganger. Sadie and Saskia are mischievous identical twins living at an orphanage, where Erik is their only friend. They are separated when Saskia is adopted by Muzz Elliott, a wealthy woman searching for her long-lost family treasure. While Saskia stumbles into the center of a crime only she can stop, Sadie and Erik embark on a quest to find her. This book is in an exciting new format called an "illustra-novella," in which the story is told alternately in graphic novel format and plain text with occasional illustrations. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 280
Dimensions: Length: 1" Width: 6.25" Height: 9.25"
Weight: 1.4 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Sep 1, 2008
Publisher Tyndale House Publishers
Age 8-12
ISBN 1414319479
EAN 9781414319476
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Availability 5 units.
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 | 2.5 out of 5This book is a completely different format than any I've read before. It's part graphic novel and part fiction nove Feb 27, 2010 |
This book is a completely different format than any I've read before. It's part graphic novel and part fiction novel. The format was what first captured my attention when I purchased this book as a gift for Wally. (He is the King of Graphic Novels around here.) After he read it, I got to see what it was all about. The story of the identical twins had me interested right away, I like twins...it's that whole sharing a womb, sharing a lifeline, creepiness that draws me in. With that said, the sisters did tend to blend together too often.
With one sister being adopted and the other left behind, the story quickly picks up pace and moves into an adventure. Sadie and Erik escape and run for their lives in order to find Saskia, whom is fighting for her life. Some of the most amusing characters that you meet are too short lived. There is a great scene with the dogs that tops all of the others, but the dogs are not central characters within the story.
Some of the artwork repeats the novel portion that was placed right before it, and repeating the storyline threw me off. Bits of the art are difficult to make out as well, it may be a matter of perspective, but there were parts of the drawings that I just couldn't figure out. The story comes up a bit short as it doesn't tie everything up neatly at the end, but it was written as part of a 6 book series. Conveniently, there is a mystery left unsolved, which leads into book two, The Secret of Indigo Moon.
| | |  | artistic pleasure, fast moving adventure Jun 25, 2009 |
| Sure to be a kid pleaser . . . this book combines graphics and a plot driven story to create a highly atmospheric adventure--lots of graphic novel features intermixed with black pages and large fonts and regular text. Plot twists and turns. Characters are not what they seem (and sometimes it is hard to distinguish between the twins (maybe intentional) and between some of the other eviler characters. Very melodramatic. A book that should be very popular. Good for reluctant readers. | | | | Akward and rude Jun 18, 2009 |
I don't like negative reviews, so I waited for my husband and parents to read it. My husband is very much a grown up kid, and my parents are both junior high school teachers.
Surprisingly, my parents had the most positive reaction to this book. Both my husband and myself felt the book treated the behavior of the characters poorly. I found the adults to be idiotic at best, downright cruel at worst, and no one had any respect for anyone else. My husband was bothered by the inconsistancies of having a leader who was both completely feared and absolutly ignored.
All four of us were bothered by the "Companion" scenes. They didn't fit the rest of the book and were a weak attempt at any sort of religious aspect the author was trying to add.
I was also disturbed by the holding of a seance, even when it proved to be an elaborate set-up.
My parents' comments focused more on the style and quality of the writing than on the context. My mom liked the variety offered by switching between styles, but found some transitions to be rough to follow. My dad thought the comics were just too distracting.
They agreed that the best summary was my dad's first impression: "It looks like it was written by a junior higher." | | |  | Dark and Disappointing Jun 6, 2009 |
| I initially obtained this book on a trial basis, and was excited about the premise of a novel which would capture the attention of tweens who are less than motivated about reading. Unfortunately, once I started reading the book I was much less excited, and actually had to force myself to finish it. The story was such that the reader felt little sympathy for the trouble-making twins, Sadie and Saskia. But even more than that, some of the situations they find themselves in, such as being electrocuted, tied up, and part of a seance, are things that I would rather my children not spend their time reading. There are much more wholesome stories out there. I evenutally shared the book with our youth pastor, who agreed that the premise of the book was good, but that the story was just plain bad. Thank you, but no thank you. | | |  | Great New Series for Tweens and Teens (and even adults ;) ) Jun 3, 2009 |
| An amazing new book is out for tweens and teens. "The Dopple Ganger Chronicles: The First Escape" is a harrowing tale of two girls that live in an orphanage. They are twins who like to cause a bit of trouble here and there but when a woman comes in who wants to adopt only one girl there is uproar and we get to see the tale unfold of Saskia and Sadie Dopple and their friend, Erik Morrissey Ganger, a former thief. Saskia gets adopted by a rich, but slightly strange woman. While we watch as Sadie and Erik escape the orphanage to find Saskia we also watch a tale unfold at the mysterious mansion that Saskia has been whisked off to. As Saskia stumbles on a plot that puts her life at risk and Erik and Sadie have a gang of enemies chasing them, the three all have to make decisions on who to trust and what to believe. The book is written well and has an interesting feature: it contains comic book illustrations of some of the action and adventure! This book will be interesting to both girls and boys because of that feature I think. I had my 10 year old daughter read it and she absolutely loved it. The comic book illustrations amused her and she called the book, "awesome and very exciting" and declared the illustrations to be "very cool." I enjoyed it as well, so I think that it is a great book for all ages even though it is aimed at youth. | | | Write your own review about First Escape (Dopple Ganger Chron V1)
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