Book & Information 24 Nov 2006 09:00 am
Black Tattoo
Here is another young-adult fantasy novel. The Black Tattoo by Sam Enthoven.
I have yet to read this book, but this is not a review post. It is another “stuff about the book” post. Part of the book’s coolness is the actual cover. It opens up to a full size poster. But when it is folded up as the cover, it isnt bulky, or annoying, it is just a perfect idea.
Secondly, we recieved a letter “from” Sam to us booksellers. He tells us that he has been “chasing [his] dream of becoming a published children’s author for almost ten years now. Up until last September [he] was supporting myself (instant noodles-style, at least!) by working as a part-time bookseller at Blackwell’s bookshop in London.”
It is a very interesting letter. The book itself came out in October, and I know that in my bookshop, even without us pushing it, it has been selling really well. I am excited to read about the “demonic possession, flying kung fu, monsters, more monsters, VOMITING BTS, and the end of the universe.” How could you NOT be excited for that? So It is available now, and go out and grab one for yourself!
Here is an excerpt I took from the amazon page:
Excerpted from The Black Tattoo by Sam Enthoven. Copyright © 2006. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
From where Jack was standing, he could see the back of Charlie’s neck. Weird black shapes were appearing under his friend’s skin. Needle-sharp points of some inky-black substance were trickling up from under the collar of Charlie’s T-shirt, widening into curved slivers of pure liquid darkness as they crawled up around his throat. Now the shapes were creeping down out of Charlie’s sleeves: sliding past his elbows and down his forearms with an oil-dark, liquid eagerness.
Jack recognized the shapes: the curves, the hooks, the spikes. He’d seen them that morning, on Charlie’s back—
It was the black tattoo.
It was moving.
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