Review: Goth Girl And The Sinister Symphony
Caitlin has read all the Goth Girl books and loved them and this latest, Goth Girl And The Sinister Symphony is the final book in this Costa award-winning series written by Chris Riddell. Riddell was Children’s Laureate from 2015 – 2017 and his love of language shines through. And, as you can guess, music features heavily!
It’s summer and Lord Goth (England’s foremost cycling poet) is holding a music festival at Ghastly-Gorm Hall. He’ s searching for his headlining act at ‘Gothstock’ but who should it be?
Ada has enough on her plate with her grandmother trying to find her father a fashionable new wife, a faun in her wardrobe and Maltravers up to his old tricks. It’s up to her to make sure everything goes to plan, and luckily she has some help from a very interesting house guest.
As usual, Chris Riddell’s humour appeals as much to older readers as it does to youngsters. The target age group of the series is 9-11 which is spot on for Caitlin but I enjoyed it too. The plot is fast paced and there really is no chance to get bored – always a challenge with younger readers. You’ll also find lots of observations on society and amusing wordplay throughout which will appeal to mums and dads.
The book is full of Riddell’s signature black and white illustrations and pun-filled characters for the whole family to enjoy together, Sir Sydney Harbour-Bridge being one of my favourites.
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Goth Girl And The Sinister Symphony is published by Macmillan Children’s Books on 20th September. Paperback RRP: £6.99. You can connect with Chris Riddell on Twitter as @chrisriddell50 and on Instagram as chris_riddell.
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Mavis from hotel Transylvania..blah blah blah?
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Marceline from Adventure time
My daughter adores this series of novels, so this would be such an amazing win for her! In the Goth Girl series, we loved the Vicarage Sisters! They were absolutely fabulous! Not within the confines of the Goth Girl series, my favourite fictional Goth Girl of all time has to be Ellie from Degrassi or Lydia from Beetlejuice
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i love the vicarage sisters!
Elvira!
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Amy Lee of Evanescence
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No favourite, as I have not read any of the books as yet.
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David from hotel transylvania
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Mavis, from Hotel Transylvania
Elvira mistress of the dark
My son loves Maltravers
Raven from the teen titans
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Lydia from Beetlejuice
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
It would have to be Wednesday Addams.
definitely has to be the girls from the craft my ultimate fave!
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Love Wednesday Adams, the original Goth from the original goth family!!
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Got to be Wednesday Adams, I also like that Cartoon Strip in the Metro, but can’t remember her name 🙁
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
Vamperina
Wednesday from the Adams family
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Abby from ncis (pauley perrette
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Allison Reynolds from The Breakfast Club.
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