Roca Editorial Juvenil: La Criatura de la Noche (Hardcover)

from hewayzha

The story is set in Ireland and it certainly sounds like a vampire or werewolf tale, but it isn't. How about a story involving the sidhe? The wee people or perhaps, wee person, play a role in this slight creepy tale. Bobby gets himself in one too many scrapes. He and his cousin are part of a gang...

from HeatherLINC

This book is specifically aimed at teenage boys and is a fairly good read. It isn't the mysterious crime story I was expecting, and the magical element is totally unnecessary, but I did enjoy the Irish setting and I liked how Bobby, the troubled teenage protagonist manages to gradually turn his l...

from AAlibrarian

Bobby is a tearaway and seriously antisocial. He demonstrates little empathy for the victims of his gang. Bobby's story runs along with a mystery over an unexplained disappearance and whispers about a murdered child. The social realism in this is gritty but for me does not sit comfortably with th...

from Sullywriter

A suspenseful mystery/thriller with a touch of magic featuring a troubled teen and an Irish setting.

from brokenangelkisses

Nominated for a Carnegie Medal, shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize and marketed as a novel 'written by the winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize', I was in danger of writing this off as a very 'worthy' book. However, as soon as I began re...