SuitabookResponsibility and judgement
Milton is sent to Heck despite being presented as a model citizen, while Marlo’s shoplifting is connected with her punishment.
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Dale E. Basye - Author
This is a fast-moving dark fantasy about judgement, punishment and sibling loyalty. Its imaginative school setting supports comic invention, while death, hell-inspired imagery and frightening authority figures give the adventure a darker edge.
WHEN MILTON AND Marlo Fauster die in a marshmallow bear explosion, they get sent straight to Heck, an otherworldly reform school. Milton can understand why his kleptomaniac sister is here, but Milton is--or was--a model citizen. Has a mistake been made? Not according to Bea "Elsa" Bubb, the Principal of Darkness. She doesn't make mistakes. She personally sees to it that Heck--whether it be home-ec class with Lizzie Borden, ethics with Richard Nixon, or gym with Blackbeard the Pirate--is especially, well, heckish for the Fausters. Will Milton and Marlo find a way to escape? Or are they stuck here for all eternity, or until they turn 18, whichever comes first?From the Hardcover edition.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a fast-moving dark fantasy about judgement, punishment and sibling loyalty. Its imaginative school setting supports comic invention, while death, hell-inspired imagery and frightening authority figures give the adventure a darker edge.
Milton is sent to Heck despite being presented as a model citizen, while Marlo’s shoplifting is connected with her punishment.
Milton and Marlo are separated, seek ways out of Heck, and are each involved in resisting the school’s control.
Consider whether a comic treatment of death, an afterlife resembling Hell, torment and supposed eternal punishment fits the reader. The opening explosion and school’s frightening treatment of children may merit advance discussion.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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