By: Alex Flinn
"I'm not your average hero. I actually wasn't your average anything."
This book is exciting, suspenseful, and slightly romantic. Cloaked is about a teenage boy named Johnny Marco. He spends everyday after school and during the summer working at his family owned shoe repair shop in luxury hotel Coral Reef Grand in South Beach. His father left when he was two years old so he has to support himself and his mother. Johnny always wished his life was more exciting. His wish is granted when a partying princess from Aloria named Princess Victoria comes to his town and stays in the hotel.
The princess challenges Johnny to track down her brother who was turned into a frog in return he will be given ten thousand dollars and Victoria's hand in marriage. Johnny accepts the challenge and is given a magic cloak, a magic earpiece, and a lucky ring that his friend Meg gives him. The magic earpiece lets him talk to animals that use to be human and the cloak can transport him anywhere. He faces many magical and unbelievable problems along the way.
Johnny is a simple teenage boy who lives in California working at a shoe repair shop. His two friends work at the same hotel with different jobs, Meg works at the coffee shop while his other friend Ryan works at he pool. He always works to help pay the bills and will do almost anything for money, even go on a frog chase. We hear his point of view throughout the whole story, and how he deals with the problems.
I recommend this book for ages twelve and up, and anyone who loves a fantasy. It will make you laugh and smile many times, and have you on the edge of your seat. Alex Flinn brings funny and interesting characters to life, and takes you to different places in America and Europe. I loved this book, and I hope whoever chooses to reads this book will love it too.
I enjoyed reading this because this book doesn't sound like your every day book, I love books that keep you in suspense because then you never want to put the book down. I am excited to try this book.
ReplyDeleteI like retellings of fairy tales and also enjoyed this book. Beastly is another great book by this author. (So much better than the movie).
ReplyDeleteYou did you very good job on this and the quote from the beginning really caught my eye and interested me from the start. I am not a fantasy person but this sounds interesting and it gave me a full view point of what the book would be about. The story sounds nice and how you wrote about it made the book come to life in my mind with out even needing to read the book. You gave a very nice introduction to what i might find in this book if i decided to read it and described the characters very nicely. And i know the main characters back round and how his story came to be where he is right now in life and why he would go on a ridiculous trip even if there was money and marriage involved.
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to reading this book. It sounds very interesting and very suspenseful. I love fantasy books, i feel like this book would be amazing and very interesting. Cloaked is defiantly a book i would consider reading.
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