Extraordinary October

By Diana Wagman

Book Overview

October is an ordinary girl. From her plain looks to her average grades, there seems to be nothing special about her. Then, three days before her eighteenth birthday, she develops a strange itch that won't go away, and her life is turned upside down. Suddenly, she can hear dogs talk, make crows fly, and two new and very handsome boys at school are vying for her affections. After she starts "transplanting" herself through solid rock, October learns that she is not ordinary at all, but the daughter of a troll princess and a fairy prince, and a pawn in a deadly war between the trolls and the fairies. Now October will have to use all of her growing powers to save her family, and stop a mysterious evil that threatens to destroy the fairy world.

In the fantastical vein of authors such as Julie Kagawa and Holly Black, Extraordinary October takes us on a magical journey from the streets of Los Angeles to the beautiful and mythical underground fairy kingdom.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1632460378
• ISBN13: 9781632460370
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Ig Publishing
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Overall well written

The story is good, and pretty interesting. It's not extremely predictable and it has some decent world building; I really like the stuff with the animals, especially Oberon. The only thing that really bothers me is the main characters constant self slut shaming? Just because she likes 2 guys? Shes never kissed a boy before & doesn't kiss either of them til about halfway through, but she constantly worries that shes a slut. The guys are fairly interesting, not just two black and white, one good one bad type characters. The side characters are interesting enough, but not all of them are quite as fleshed out as they could have been. I'd read a second book is the author wrote another one.