Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City by Kirsten Miller
Want an adventure? Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City by Kirsten Miller will give you just that!
Life will never be the same for Ananka Fishbein after she ventures into an enormous sinkhole near her New York City apartment. Climbing down a filthy rope ladder deeper and deeper into the ground to find a mysterious underground room, Ananka knows she has stumbled upon a big scret, but she has no idea exactly how big.
Not only does she discover the long-forgotten Shadow City beneath Manhattan’s bustling streets, she meets the mysterious Kiki Strike, a black-clad, Vespa riding, cafe-au-lait drinking girl who seems to appear and vanish like magic.
A million rats, delinquent Girl scouts out for revenge, and a secret city below the streets of Manhattan combine in this remarkable novel about a darker side of New York City you have only just begun to know about . . .
What fun! I really enjoyed Kiki Strike if not for it’s complete lack of believability. My one and only irk with Kiki Strike was the fact that five 12 year olds have no parental supervision, roam the streets of New York City, hail cabs, order lattes at cafe’s, have an endless cash flow, and have the know it all brains to plan all sorts of escapades and able to get themselves out of anything. Oh, and they don’t bat an eye when they meet skeleton upon skeleton underneath the streets of New York City. I would be a little weirded it out. But really, these things don’t matter much. I don’t even know why I bring it up.
If you like solving mysteries, enjoy adventure, and tons of girl power then I’d suggest Kiki Strike. It’s a perfect mother daughter book club book or read-a-loud. I’m looking forward to reading its sequel Kiki Strike: The Empress’s Tomb.
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Category: Book Reviews, Fiction, Young Adult
Tags: adventure, book club, children's literature book club selection, I-L Title, M-P Author, mystery
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I think the things that irked you about this book would drive me mad.
on December 29th, 2008 at 7:06 amIt sounds like fun (as long as you could overlook all of the stuff you mentioned).
on December 29th, 2008 at 12:19 pmAll your complaints are things that bothered me too, but not until after I had finished reading it and was thinking about it. I really enjoyed Kiki while I was reading it. The second is pretty fun too, though I did find some things more aggravating in that one (that I noticed at the time)
on December 29th, 2008 at 1:04 pmIt sounds pretty good. I would be frightened at the skeletons though.
on December 29th, 2008 at 2:28 pmI read this one a year or so ago (my thoughts match yours about it, it sounds like) but haven’t read the sequel yet.
Becky
on December 30th, 2008 at 9:52 amOh it does sound great!
on December 30th, 2008 at 2:57 pmI read Kiki Strike: Into the Shadow City and the second book Kiki Strike:The Empresses Tomb and i thought they were both fantastic, i really cant wait for the next book.
on March 2nd, 2009 at 3:11 amOMG! I don’t know how those things could bug you! I absolutly loved this book! your a freak!
on June 22nd, 2009 at 9:03 pm