The Dopple Ganger Chronicles: The First Escape*

*which tells ya right off someone’s gonna get caught and have to escape all over again…

DG Chronicles #1 The First Escape

by G.P. Taylor (2008)

I think I ended up liking the premise for the book — part graphic novel, part enhanced text/page layout — itself more than the story, although at times I liked it less and then more than my final evaluation.  Got it?  Me neither…

Twin girls at an orphanage,  a myriad of mean adults, a spooky house, a brave cleaning boy comes to the rescue.  Lots of action, interesting characters and ideas, great art, strong message of the importance of family…

I’m not sure what it is about this book that kept it from really capturing me; it might be the shifts between the comic book pages and the text pages, or between the characters and settings as the story progressed.  Maybe the book is too glossy/showy and not enough depth — the twin orphan girls are brats in the beginning, there are too many bad guys trying to do them in, and the potential hero is vague.  But again I do like the comic/book combo and it appears there are more installments coming, so I’d give the “Dopple Ganger” series another try.

connections: Coraline, Series of Unfortunate Events

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