Sunday, May 13, 2012

Paint by Magic

Paint by Magic
By: Kathryn Reiss
Reviewed by: JNoto, 14
Rating: It was alright

Eleven year old Connor returns home from school one day to possibly the biggest surprise of his life. His mother has become determined to make her family into a traditional cliché. She purged the house of computers and TVs, suddenly cooks amazing food, and has made plans to cut nearly all of her children’s co-curricular activities. Not only that, but she constantly becomes frozen in odd poses, as if caught on paper. Furthermore, she’s obsessed with an art book, which Connor later discovers has paintings of a woman that looks exactly like his mother.
When he touches one of the sketches in the book, he finds himself in the 1920’s, in the presence of the painter who painted his ‘mom’. Can he save his mother from her catatonic spells? And can he find out why his mother is multiple paintings over 80 years old? Overall a pretty good read, though the end's a bit cliché.

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