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I finished reading the Peculiar and immediately logged onto Amazon and bought the Whatnot. I am 25 and I know that these books were written for preteens but I loved them. The Whatnot was sort of confusing in the aspect of time... I couldn't tell if a lot of time had gone by or not... sometimes it mentioned years having gone by but it was very vague. On the reverse of that the whole book is sort of vague and I appreciate that for everything else, I enjoy letting my imagination fill in the blanks and paint the pictures. Bachmann describes the characters and settings sufficiently yet minimally so I had plenty of space to flesh things out as I would like.

The Whatnot picks up just where the Peculiar leaves off and it is written in the exact same vein. The author still has the same voice and we get to find out what happened to many of the characters from the Peculiar and then meet a couple of interesting new ones.


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The Whatnot The Peculiar Book 2 edition by Stefan Bachmann Children eBooks Reviews

Intriguing sequel to the first book (The Peculiar). Younger readers (pre-teen, teen) would probably like it, too.
When is Stefan Bachmann going to write another book? When? This book is a delight. A fascinating magical world, wonderfully good and evil characters, (adorable poor boys, sinister, disgusting monsters) and a strong plot. It's good for readers who like fairy tales, such as Ella Enchanted by Gale Carson Levine, and the Grimm fairy tales such as A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz, and Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz.
Well where to start? I am still kind of lost for words. I absolutely loved the first book 'The Peculiar'. The idea was unique and the characters very likeable. - SPOILER ALERT - The second book had none of the charm of the first one. The new main character Thomas is likeable enough. It is absurd though that he is as loyal to Bartholomew Kettle as he is given how badly Bartholomew treats him the entire time. As for Bartholomew - he has not returned home after his sister disappeared and wandered the world for years in search for her. I mean how belivable is it that he would not dare to go back to see or comfort his mother or send word to her? Arthur Jelliby the lovable reluctant hero of book one does hardly appear at all and plays no role in the book whatsoever. The elven king aims to conquer the world but has no backstory, character development or motivation attached to him at all. And in the end after years have passed since the events of book one, all the faeries happily go home as do Barthy, his sister and their new found brother Thomas? Not very likely.
The mood of the book was downright bleak. Barthy was portrayed throughout as really nasty and unlikeable. The narrated events hardly sum up to something that could be called a coherent story.
I do not know what happened here but this was ONE BIG DISAPPOINTMENT.
I wasn't sure if this book was going to bring the first book, "The Peculiar", into play and was pleased to discover it did, and with such new and charming characters that I loved it as much as the first. There are no cutting corners or weak moments, the story is new, creative and so beautifully written that my heart was charmed. These 2 books are now apart of my all-time favorites. The audio is addictive; the voices are spot on and really give depth, character and pace.
I bought this book for my 10 yr old who had just got done reading The Peculars. It's the first book set she really got into reading and because of that has a new love for reading that she was missing before! This is a priceless achivement that I never thought would come! She just hated reading before. Now she loves reading and is "writting a novel" herself. (it's just in idea form right now) But the moral here is that this book helpped my child discover a whole new world and outlook on reading. For that I would give a hundred stars! She also got me to read it and yes it was the first book, I picked up and couldn't put down til I was done with, it that I have read in about 15 years.
I came across his first book in one of those book clubs in an airport lounge where you drop one and pick one. I just finished one book and the peculiar was the only one non-romance book they had, as I had a 6 hours flight ahead of me I picked it up without much expectations. I must say I liked it but it was nothing spectacular, however a couple of months later I ran out of things to read and while browsing in I saw this one.
Bought the kindle edition, started reading it that night and I'm sure glad I did. It took me a couple of nights to read it, thoroughly enjoyed it and since then I cannot get that book out of my head.
The first book just toyed with the idea of a somewhat familiar world... another London in another planet Earth in a parallel universe. the characters were there, the description was there but it was so mundane that there was nothing truly engaging for me... no powerful wizard that didn't know he was a wizard, no fire breathing dragons, no weakling on an impossible journey, etc.
now the second book is the real article, he sold me that world in the first pages; the action never stopped, the character got better and better... the house that is constantly changing, the eyes that can see through parallel worlds and especially the jail description were that out of the ordinary details that set him apart from the Rolling, Tolkien, etc impersonators that litter this book category...

If you enjoyed Harry Potter, Eragon, Percy Jackson even Games of Thrones you must read this one.

As for the author I'm trilled he is only 19, that means I will hopefully have many years of good books ahead of me but if you (Stefan) are reading this please, please, please understand that what made the first book good and the second superb was that it were short, fast paced highly innovative books. keep it that way, I have seen so many failures of great sequels
-Paulini with Eragon first book was great, second unbelievable, third meh, fourth a total disaster.
-Martin with Game of Thrones best first book ever, second was even better than first, third ok, fourth bad and fifth an absolute pain to finish.

I do not know what is going on with the fourth book, authors have success writing 200-300 pages fast pace books and then they decide to bring in a fourth book that is 800-900 pages that introduces so many new characters and plots going nowhere that the magic is lost. even Rolling tried her hand in the fourth and fifth books of Harry Potter with 800+ pages, luckily she pulled it off... most are not so skilled.
So, my dear Stefan... I would love to read an 800 pages book if it is as good as your second but do yourself a favor and if you see your books are breaking the 400 pages mark; call a great editor (Riordan's maybe?), a friend and someone that hates your writing... listen to them, find a middle ground and make the changes you need to. you had a pretty good start but remember others had too, only to crash and burn... please, please learn from their mistakes because I want more of what you showed me in the second book. A lot more.

Thanks for a great trip, I'll be looking out for more and good luck,

Luis
I finished reading the Peculiar and immediately logged onto and bought the Whatnot. I am 25 and I know that these books were written for preteens but I loved them. The Whatnot was sort of confusing in the aspect of time... I couldn't tell if a lot of time had gone by or not... sometimes it mentioned years having gone by but it was very vague. On the reverse of that the whole book is sort of vague and I appreciate that for everything else, I enjoy letting my imagination fill in the blanks and paint the pictures. Bachmann describes the characters and settings sufficiently yet minimally so I had plenty of space to flesh things out as I would like.

The Whatnot picks up just where the Peculiar leaves off and it is written in the exact same vein. The author still has the same voice and we get to find out what happened to many of the characters from the Peculiar and then meet a couple of interesting new ones.