I really enjoyed the first book, but find that the second book is more tedious to get through. The first book found innocent Milton trapped in Heck where he was sure he did not belong, especially with his kleptomaniac sister. The end of the first book sees Milton escape Heck and back to "the st...
She wasn’t sure if she could believe her brother’s nearsighted eyes. The blazing hoop just had to be another one of Barnum’s lies, but it seemed so real. In any case, Marlo didn’t relish the thought of getting the third degree from Milton about his third-degree burns, in the off chance that they ...
Hundreds of jackets hung on the coiling mechanical rack, all of them—to Marlo’s eyes—exactly the same: snazzy and modern, yet with a squared-off, vintage 1950s silhouette. The demon “helping” her—a jaundiced woman with cobweb hair pulled tightly in a bun—tapped her long, French-manicured talons i...
In fact, after shuffling just several hundred filthy feet in the muck, Virgil stopped, looked down at the soiled map, then pointed to the roof of the tunnel a few yards in front of him. “Here we are,” he said. “Up, up and away…” In my beautiful balloon, thought Milton hopefully. Virgil squeezed t...