Wax (Audible Audio Edition) Gina Damico Erin Spencer Audible Studios Books
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Paraffin, Vermont, is home to the Grosholtz Candle Factory. There, 17-year-old Poppy finds something dark and unsettling a room filled with dozens of startlingly lifelike wax sculptures. Later, she's shocked when one of the figures - a teenage boy who doesn't seem to know what he is - jumps naked and screaming out of the trunk of her car. Poppy wants to return him to the factory, but before she can, a fire destroys the mysterious workshop. With the help of the wax boy, who answers to the name Dud, Poppy tries to find out who was behind the fire. Along the way she discovers that some of the townspeople are starting to look a little...waxy. Can they extinguish the evil plot?
Cover design by Lisa Vega. Cover image by Steve Gardner.
Wax (Audible Audio Edition) Gina Damico Erin Spencer Audible Studios Books
This was odd.It is really outside my normal wheelhouse as it is a bit comedy and a little bit horrorlite/mystery.
The short of it is let's just say that a Wax boy comes to life and helps a social media sensation (not in a good way but in an 'I'll be in therapy the rest of my life because my most embarrassing moment went viral' way) and her theater group save the town from wax copies replacing main members of the small town.
There is some hilarity, some slightly scary and a whole lot of weird.
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Wax (Audible Audio Edition) Gina Damico Erin Spencer Audible Studios Books Reviews
I heard about this and it became one of my most anticipated reads of 2016. I LOVE horror and I wanted so bad to read this and be scared out of my wits. But then I finally got around to it and yeah....... Not like I was expecting.
In a town where a homemade fudge and scented candles reign supreme, Poppy finds something that's not as nice as everyone is making it seem. She finds a room in the back of it that holds many different wax figures. They all seem so life-like. When one comes to her home, things start to get really freaky. She finds out things she wishes she didn't know about the museum and that the reputation of it isn't as squeaky clean as they've heard it is.
The main reason I didn't want to finish this was because it wasn't what I expected. I've never read anything by Damico, so I was thinking it was just something that would be creepy and cool because of Wax people. Butttt the entire time I read it, I did not think it was creepy at all. It was more funny. And then it turned into a parody. And that just wasn't what I wanted it to be.It had a bad ass synopsis that would've scared the crap outta me. So someone write a serious version of this pleaseeeeee
This DNF didn't work for me because of the writing style, but that doesn't mean it won't work for someone else. I saw someone else rate this 5 stars! So if this writing style is for you and you enjoy parodies, please read this one and tell me if I should go through with the end!
I am new to the works of Gina Damico, but after "Wax," consider me a big fan. I read a hundred or more books each year, and every so often there's a real standout, the kind of book that it is a pleasure to read and one you hope might never end. "Wax," a children's mystery-thriller (ages 12 and up, so says the book) is an unlikely candidate for the affections of a late-30s parent of two, but it really is an awesome book. It has a little bit of everything humor, suspense, genuine horrors, adventure, really colorful characters, and lots of great literary, theatrical, and historical references. And as a lifelong fan of wax museums, it's as if Damico wrote this especially for me.
Rather than try and summarize the plot and potentially give away clues or spoilers, I'll just say that the little Vermont town of Parrifin is - to me - more than a bit Stars Hollow-like with its collection of quirky personalities, its obsession with local heritage, and a likeably dorky teenage heroine who references books and musical theater in what I can only imagine to be rapidfire dialogue. But then there's the darkness, the horror, and the occasionally surprisingly graphic violence. So it really is like Gilmore Girls fell into an extended Goosebumps episode or found itself directed by Tim Burton. All of which is both good and cool. Which is all to say that this is a rare treat, an intelligent and sassy "children's book" that can apparently delight jaded adults as well and capture a little bit of whimsy along the way. Very recommended.
Preteens would love it!
One of those current books for young readers straining really hard for humor and ending up just silly. It's John Green stretched to include mild horror/supernatural elements--which isn't as good as it sounds
This book was a lot of fun, and sometimes that's exactly what you're looking for. The characters were well-realized and imperfect, so that even the ones that were annoying (I kinda wanted to smack best friend Jill) worked together to make the story come to life.
The ridiculousness of the storyline is established early in the book, and the writing makes it easy to just go with it. I really enjoyed the characters' frantic attempts to save their town, and didn't find myself questioning their efforts in such a crazy alternate reality.
I've enjoyed Damico's other books, and this one made me want to go back and reread her previous work.
This was odd.
It is really outside my normal wheelhouse as it is a bit comedy and a little bit horrorlite/mystery.
The short of it is let's just say that a Wax boy comes to life and helps a social media sensation (not in a good way but in an 'I'll be in therapy the rest of my life because my most embarrassing moment went viral' way) and her theater group save the town from wax copies replacing main members of the small town.
There is some hilarity, some slightly scary and a whole lot of weird.
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