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I have enjoyed reading all of Ksenia's works but "The Badlings" took me on a ride that I didn't want to get off. I was captivated from the first chapter. Ksenia's vast, literary influences is apparent as each chapter unfolds and her unique perspective is a joy to discover. I truly enjoyed this thrilling, mysterious, fantasy! A book for all ages! Of all her books "The Badlings" is my favorite. I will be reading this again and again.


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Imagine if Roald Dahl (Matilda) collaborated with Lewis Carrol (Alice in Wonderland) and Jasper Fforde (Nursery Crimes). You might then get something like 'The Badlings' by Ksenia Anske. But probably not.

Ms. Anske writes at a breathtaking pace, catapulting her pre-teen protagonists from adventure to adventure, after sucking them into a book in the first chapter. But this isn't an ordinary book. It's called 'Mad Tome' because the book is crazy. Insane. Psychopathic.

Why it's crazy and what it and the characters inside the book are trying to do about it and to the four young adventurers is for you to find out. Beg, borrow, or steal this book and read it--all the way through. That's VERY important.

Or, you can ignore this review and deprive yourself of reading pleasure.
The Badlings by Ksenia Anskeis a young adult horror/fantasy story. Anske was born in Moscow, Russia, and came to the US in 1998. She is the author of dark fantasy short fiction and 7 novels, and the winner of Amtrak Residency Program 2015. I was lucky enough to meet the author at the Dallas stop in her Amtrak Residency.

Back in the early 1970s when Saturday Morning cartoons were still a thing, there was a live action show called Lidsville by Sid and Marty Kroft.  The storyline is about a boy, Mark, who falls into a magicians hat and ends up in a land of living hats. A very weird show for kids from the creators of H.R. Pufnstuf (It's rumored that the H.R. stood for Hand Rolled if that offers a hint). I nearly forgot about that show until I started The Badlings.  

Belladonna wants to be a scientist much against her mother's wishes for her daughter to follow in her footsteps as a opera singer. Belladonna prefers Bells as a nickname and keeps an analytical mind. She and her three male friends Rusty, Grand, and Peacock find themselves pulled into an adventure. After meeting at the duck pond, Bells finds a book half buried, digs it up, and flings it at some nearby duck as stress relief from an argument with her mother. However, like Mark in Lidsville, Bells and her friends find themselves pulled into a world they could never imagine. Well, actually, they could imagine because it's a world of books they started but did not finish.

Anske writes intriguing fantasy and horror fiction. The stories, for the most part, seem to be for the young adult crowd with teen characters. These stories, however, can also be enjoyed by adults. Although there is an air horror in portions of the story, it is not something that is graphic or intense but a good old-fashioned scare.  For those, parents and others,  worried about language or adult situations, there are none.  A well told and well thought out story for fans of fantasy of all ages. 
Bells, Grand, Peacock and Rusty fall into a book, but not just any book, the Book of Dead Pages AKA Mad Tome. Within Mad Tome reside all the pages that people didn’t finish reading and all the characters who are tired of continuously playing out those pages over and over again. Bells and her friends discover a world of books that have ulterior motives. Are these Badling children here by accident or were they lured into this imaginative world for another purpose? But hey, since books aren’t ‘real’ and Mad Tome is just a collection of pages torn out of other books they should be able to escape easily, right? After hopping through quite a number of stories and meeting quite a number of characters Bells and her buddies will discover that it’s not as easy to escape after all.

Rusty and I both like doughnuts. Bells and I both don’t how to pick our fights as we choose to battle every time. Grand and I both ramble on when people don’t necessarily want to listen anymore. Sometimes I just want to be noticed, like Peacock. Ksenia Anske builds characters that may be completely different from her readers, but they always have something you can hold onto as a characteristic you can relate to. Which is good, because sometimes her storylines become entirely peculiar.

Anske is a bit like Louis Sachar in that her characters are young and whiny and whimsical. Anske is a bit like Neil Gaiman in that she crafts a story that has creative rhyme and reason to the imaginative twists. Anske is a bit like Lewis Carroll in that the reader can’t quite tell what is real and what is false. In The Badlings, Ksenia Anske gives me some of what I longed for in the Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. The Badlings is young adult and references books I’ve actually read, unlike Eyre Affair with its snooty books for adults.

The Badlings began with a neat little twist, like a less sinister (or so I thought) Jumanji that was all about books! Four kids find an object (a book) and it does something completely out of the ordinary (pulls them in). From there Anske does things a little bit differently. I appreciated the fact that there is a subtle theme for holding books sacred and that you shouldn’t just throw them here or there and that you MUST FINISH THEM or be regarded as a Badling. Everybody should strive to be a Goodling.

I recommend this book for anyone who enjoys the whimsical imagination of Neil Gaiman or appreciates books.
Funny, clever and imaginative. Get it, 'cos you won't regret it.
I really enjoyed this book. Anske did it again with her unstoppable imagination. I loved the storyline, the children getting caught in their unfinished books, and their final escape! Cannot wait to read Tube next!
I have enjoyed reading all of Ksenia's works but "The Badlings" took me on a ride that I didn't want to get off. I was captivated from the first chapter. Ksenia's vast, literary influences is apparent as each chapter unfolds and her unique perspective is a joy to discover. I truly enjoyed this thrilling, mysterious, fantasy! A book for all ages! Of all her books "The Badlings" is my favorite. I will be reading this again and again.