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| Kin (The Good Neighbors, Book 1) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Holly Black, Ted Naifeh
Publisher: GRAPHIX
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 155447
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0439855624
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780439855624
ASIN: 0439855624
Publication Date: October 1, 2008
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Rue Silver's mother has disappeared . . . and her father has been arrested, suspected of killing her. But it's not as straightforward as that. Because Rue is a faerie, like her mother was. And her father didn't kill her mother -- instead, he broke a promise to Rue's faerie king grandfather, which caused Rue's mother to be flung back to the faerie world. Now Rue must go to save her -- and must also defeat a dark faerie that threatens our very mortal world.
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 A Classic Graphic Novel December 18, 2008
The graphic novel, The Good Neighbors by Holly Black is a very good book in my opinion. The beginning catches your interest right away by casting foreshadowing. The main character Rue is a type of character you can relate to in some way because of her past and how she has to live now.
Rue is an only child who is now living alone with her father after her mother made a mysterious disappearance. Rue has no idea as to where her mother has gone, and her dad has stopped gong to work, yet she has no worries. Rue recently has started worrying about one thing, though. Rue has been seeing very strange things lately. At first Rue doesn't think anything of it, but after she discusses it with her friends, the things she has been seeing start becoming much clearer. Finally she meets the reason why her mother had disappeared. Rue finds her future is of being a faerie, which is what her mother is as well. The reason goes further when you seek the past of Rue's father, and how he met Rue's mother. And the end leaves you wanting more.
My suggestion is to definitely read this book. The Good Neighbors is a fun quick read with bunches of great graphic illustrations to go along with the story. The plot is amazing and the ending is the worst part, but only because it leaves nothing but suspicion of what could possibly happens next.
 Great start! December 15, 2008
I bought this the moment I saw this in the store. I was far from disappointed. This was a great beginning to a trilogy of young adult graphic novels. I can't wait for the next one. My only complaint... I'd have loved for th pictures to be in color.
Rue Silver's mother has vanished and her father's being blamed for murder - is he guilty? December 13, 2008
Graphic novels for elementary to middle school grades have the attraction of intriguing reluctant readers: THE GOOD NEIGHBORS is no exception, even though its graphics are in black and white and not full color. Rue Silver's mother has vanished and her father's being blamed for murder - is he guilty? Her investigation uncovers a startling truth about her mother's past and her own world in this fine story.
Family and faerie December 1, 2008
Holly Black tells creepy faerie tales. Ted Naifeh draws eerie stories about otherworldly creatures.
So unsurprisingly they mesh together well in "The Good Neighbors: Kin," the first part of a graphic novel series about a girl living half in faerie, half in our world. While the plot seems cliche at first, Black successfully throws some curve balls in the form of missing mothers, murders and a series of thoroughly creepy, inhuman faery creatures.
Ever since her spacey (read: faery) mother vanished, Rue has been seeing strange things -- elves, goblins, butterfly-winged faeries and other bizarre creatures. When her dad is arrested for the murder of a student, it forces Rue to find out what has happened to her mother, and to figure out exactly what kind of creature her mother really is.
Then her sinister maternal grandfather appears, demanding that Rue come to live with him -- and his servant Tam hints that Grandpa isn't planning on . Rue is forced to enlist her mortal friends in her hunt for some very nasty secrets: the student's death, the affair that drove her mother back into her own world -- and a terrible trick that is being played on her.
"The Good Neighbors: Kin" is apparently Holly Black's first stab at a graphic novel -- but you wouldn't know it. It's a very polished, lean story that successfully winds together several plot threads, and manages to throw some surprisingly twists. Some of the answers to these mysteries aren't what you'd initially expect -- and the people in them aren't always what they seem.
But Black also knows how to spin up an atmosphere of shadowy, slightly ominous otherworldliness -- moving vines, punky fairies, a few nasty geas, and some very gruesome old stories of murdered "changeling" women. At the same time, there's a beauty to many of Rue's experiences, such as when she unconsciously makes roses grow over herself, or remembers her mother's fey answers to basic questions.
And if you want to get all analytical, "Kin" handles the growing pains of an adolescent leaving innocence behind. Rue has to grapple with her faerie nature and how it may alienate her boyfriend, while she also tries to figure out what kind of world faerie is. And the mysterious Tam is a striking one: he's forced to obey whether he likes it or not, and there's a bit of a spark between him and Rue.
Ted Naifeh's artwork suits the storyline wonderfully -- dark, slightly jagged, and drawn with fluid realism. While it would be a bit better if it were colored, it adds to the poetry of Black's writing.
"Good Neighbors: Kin" is a solid start to Holly Black's graphic novel series, and though it ends on a cliffhanger, it promises to only get better.
dark, engaging, and fun November 20, 2008
I've been really enjoying dark fantasy and fairy stories lately, and this book definitely did not disappoint. The art was very good, the characters great, and the story was engaging. For fantasy graphic novels, it doesn't get much better than this.
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