There's heart, humor, and a warehouse full of kitchen sinks in the random plot developments also swordplay, curses, battle wounds, magical coercion, and the overhanging theme that things have been very, very strange ever since that giant perished in pursuit of Jack and cosmic conflict ensued.LOS ANGELES (AP) LeBron James didn't take a shot in the first quarter of Game 3 for the first time in his NBA-record 275 playoff appearances, and the Los Angeles Lakers' home crowd rumbled with mild uncertainty each time he passed the ball instead. But the story of 12-year-old giant Lena, who's struggling for acceptance as a giant despite being human size, and Jinn, a self-absorbed young genie enslaved by King Midas, is fast-moving, wacky, and typical of Riley's reinvented fairy tales.
As a snarkily kibitzing character points out frequently, you may be a bit lost here and there in this book if you're not familiar with the original series (helpfully mentioned by name). Parents need to know that Once Upon Another Time is the first book in a planned trilogy set in the world James Riley ( Story Thieves) created for his Half Upon a Time series, which is a zany reinvention of the "Jack in the Beanstalk" tale. There's plenty of cartoonish violence and peril, both physical harm (punching, kicking, swords, slashing, stabbing, threats to devour people) and magical mayhem (curses with unpredictable results, magic flame ditto, spooky faceless armies, King Midas turning everyone and everything that crosses him into gold).ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. The villain controls the genie by remote magic violence, including strangling, and fear of worse fates.
Looming in the background, and causing mortal enmity between giants and humans, is the story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" and the death of the giant, whose brother, the current king, seeks revenge.
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