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WHEN MILTON AND Marlo Fauster die in a marshmallow bear explosion, they get sent straight to Heck, an otherworldly reform school. Milton can understand why his kleptomaniac sister is here, but Milton is—or was—a model citizen. Has a mistake been made? Not according to Bea "Elsa" Bubb, the Principal of Darkness. She doesn't make mistakes. She personally sees to it that Heck—whether it be home-ec class with Lizzie Borden, ethics with Richard Nixon, or gym with Blackbeard the Pirate—is especially, well, heckish for the Fausters. Will Milton and Marlo find a way to escape? Or are they stuck here for all eternity, or until they turn 18, whichever comes first?
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Andre Ebeling
reviewed Heck : Where the Bad Kids Go (Circles of Heck Series #1) on January 21, 2014
Heck : Where the Bad Kids Go (Circles of Heck Series #1)
What happens if you're too horrid for Heaven but not quite bad enough for Hell?
Welcome to Heck, a limboland of wait and see, where recently deceased youngsters can learn and hopefully ascend, or wind up in H - E - double-hockey sticks with the big, red dude.
After succumbing to injuries sustained in a bizarre exploding-marshmallow incident, Marlo and Milton are sent to Heck. Here, they are given the opportunity to mend their "evil" ways and join Mother Teresa in Sixth Heaven (the buffet there is to die for!), or go to, well, you-know-where.
I didn't think this was nearly as bad as some reviewers would have you believe. In fact, the first half of the book is richly imaginative and packed with nifty little details:
- Tots spend nap time in gingerbread coffins where demons read aloud to them the horror stories of Edgar Allan Poe and Danielle Steele.
- The boys are all outfitted in yellow lederhosen.
- Entertainment choices are a singing purple dinosaur or a documentary featuring a real-time broadcast of paint drying.
- And Richard Nixon teaches ethics!
I could see this being turned into a swell Tim Burtonesque CGI movie.
The big problems I had with the book were the second half - not much more than a series of escape attempts, AND the kids themselves. They had NO personalities, and were never able to transcend their stereotypes of bad girl, nerd, fat-boy sidekick and bully.
Perhaps this issue is addressed in later volumes of the series, but I'm done. The eight other Circles of Heck will remain unvisited by me.
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