Reviews on Hilo the Boy Who Crashed to Earth
| Hilo Volume ane: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth past Judd Winick | |
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| Category: Confident Readers | |
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| Reviewer: Louise Jones | |
| Summary: A male child crash lands to earth with no retentivity of who he is or why he is here. Can his new friends assist him to regain his memory before it is too late? | |
| Buy? aye | Infringe? yes |
| Pages: 208 | Date: December 2016 |
| Publisher: Random House Books | |
| External links: Writer'southward website | |
| ISBN: 9780385386173 | |
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Run into D.J. He'due south the odd ane out in a family of talented prodigies. Whilst his siblings excel at music, arts, science and sport, D.J. isn't specially expert at anything. When D.J. discovers a boy who seems to take crash-landed to earth, things start to change. Suddenly, this very ordinary boy has the potential to exist a existent hero; especially when he discovers that his new friend is not the merely thing that fell to globe that twenty-four hours...
Hilo: The Boy Who Crashed to World is a fast-paced comic book hazard filled with action and excitement on every page. On the surface, the story appears lightweight; a boy crashes to world and has to fight robots who want to destroy the planet. Scrape below the surface, however and at that place is a lot more to the narrative than meets the eye. For example, D.J. is a very ordinary male child who thinks that he is useless at everything and a lot of young readers will be able to relate to him as a sort of 'lowest' character. His friendship with Hilo and Gina is touching and profound; when he starts to run into himself through their optics, he realises that he is annihilation but ordinary to them. The theme of friendship runs throughout the book and gives a strong and compelling bulletin to young readers.
There are enough of old, familiar tropes thrown into the storyline and older readers may detect themselves trying to work out just how many movies, books and stories have 'inspired' the author along the mode, but this is an endearing rather than alienating quality of the book. The characters are likeable, with clearly defined personalities and come from diverse backgrounds.
Visually, the book is an absolute please. The colours are bold and bright and the characters are able to communicate a wide range of emotions as the story progresses. One feature I establish specially interesting was the way the author drew the eyes of the characters. In well-nigh scenes, the eyeballs are white and blank, although withal managing to convey expression perfectly. However, in the more intense scenes in the book, the eyes of the characters are drawn in a more detailed fashion and the visual effect is powerful. I also liked the scenes where there was no dialogue; just a sequence of 'silent' images depicting the passage of time. Again, the style of these images has a powerful effect.
The book is the starting time in a series and ends on a huge bewilderment that will leave readers desperate for more. I'grand afraid that it's as well late for me. The writer has worked his magic on me and I'm hooked. Completely hooked. We also accept a review of volume two.
If y'all like this book, you will probably enjoy the excellent Star Wars Jedi Academy by Jeffrey Brownish, a very funny comic-volume story set in a centre schoolhouse far, far away.
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