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ISBN: 978-618-07-0624-6 Συγγραφέας: Meggitt-Phillips Jack Εκδότης: Εκδόσεις Πατάκη Σειρά: Η Μπέθανυ και το Τέρας Σελίδες: 240 Ημερομηνία Έκδοσης: 2024-06-19 Διαστάσεις: 21 x 14 Εξώφυλλο: Χαρτόδετο

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ISBN: 978-618-07-0624-6 Συγγραφέας: Meggitt-Phillips Jack Εκδότης: Εκδόσεις Πατάκη Σειρά: Η Μπέθανυ και το Τέρας Σελίδες: 240 Ημερομηνία Έκδοσης: 2024-06-19 Διαστάσεις: 21 x 14 Εξώφυλλο: Χαρτόδετο

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Name: Nic (or at least what I go by)

Pronouns: She/They

Star sign: Aquarius

# of siblings: One half brother

# of pets: none :')

Fandoms: osc, sonic the hedgehog, mario and pizza tower

Favourite colours: Purple and cyan

Favourite song: Wet by Dazey and the Scouts

Favourite author: Jack Meggitt-Phillips

Hobbies: Drawing, singing, reading

Favourite holiday: Valentine's Day since it's literally just my birthday and I love the aesthetic!

Partners: Single and NEVER going to mingle

Fun fact: I can usually finish a full drawing in around 10-15 minutes :>

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I got bored so here's a little get-to-know-you tag game I think could be fun :3

Name(s)

Pronouns

Star sign

# of siblings & fun facts about them (if you have any)

# of pets & their names

Fandoms

Favorite color

Favorite song

Favorite author (of anything readable-- books, fanfics, zines, webtoons, whatever!)

Hobbies

Favorite fic type

Favorite holiday

Do you have any partner(s)? (romantic, qpp, anything!)

Fun facts about you / anything extra you wanna share!

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Name(s): Loki (highly preferred), Elye

Pronouns : they/them mostly, he/she okay too

Star sign: Pisces

# of siblings: I've got 2! An older sister and a younger sibling. The fun fact about them is that they're also both queer; in fact, my mom is too. The only non-queer person in my immediate family is my dad.

# of pets: 4 cats! Phoebe & Frankie are our girls, Lenny and Murray are our boys :3

Fandoms: MCU (kind of), BSD, OFMD, Ranboo (does his fanbase count as a fandom?)

Fav. color: Don't have one

Fav. song: Aurora Borealis by Lemon Demon

Fav. author: Alice Oseman

Hobbies: singing, acting, drawing, writing, procrastinating

Fav. fic type: Fluff, definitely. I am a sucker for well written coffee-shop and flower-shop aus, too. Smut's fine, but only if it's romantic. I can't do angst if there's no comfort.

Fav. Holiday: Hanukkah or Halloween! I love autumn and winter

Partners?: Yes! I have a girlfriend (queerplatonic) who I love very much, and a boyfriend (romantic) who I love very much :]

Fun facts:

- Even though I'm a cat person, I really, really want a dog.

- I actually used to play sports. Because I don't do gendered leagues anymore, I don't play, but I've been looking for mixed/gender-neutral/queer sports teams. Baseball and basketball specifically!

- I started questioning my identity in 2019; I'm no closer to finding a label now than I was then. The difference is, now I don't want a label. I just am. :]

tags: @neonganymede @cha0ticlesbian @x-chiara @exceleo @brinnybee @autistic-katara @gandalfthemorallygrey @ohboyanotherlokiblog @roachandrenfri @ourflagmeanslokius @exceleo @edettethegreat @swiftlyspidey

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Review: Revenge of the Beast by Jack Meggitt-Phillips and Isabelle Follath

Last year, I was lucky enough to take part in the blog tour for the first instalment in this witty, madcap middle-grade series. This year, I’m lucky enough to take part in another blog tour with The WriteReads and Farshore for the follow-up to The Beast and the Bethany -Revenge of the Beast.

The beast has ruled 500-something Ebenezer Tweezer’s life for centuries and now it has finally gone. He and reformed prankster Bethany are now determined to become do-gooders and transform the neighbourhood’s opinions of them. But this proves harder than both of them thought and Ebenezer finds that he’s strangely missing the beast. Claudette the parrot is also feeling and behaving a bit strangely, so what’s really going on?

The book is accompanied by Isabelle Follath’s quirky, charismatic illustrations. As well as the full page images, we are treated to double page spreads and decorative borders throughout the book. They add an extra engaging dimension, which I adored.

Meggitt-Phillips’ humour is ridiculously silly and ideal for imaginative children’s writing. It manages to be slapstick with enough cheek and sass for it to appeal to older readers too. At their heart, these books are intrinsically dark but the comedy prevents them from being nightmare fodder. 

I don’t think I’ve ever read a building described as ‘an architectural equivalent of someone who freely picks their nose in public’ but it works wonderfully well for the orphanage. I am still in awe of the unique descriptions that Meggitt-Phillips puts to paper and I know that kids will laugh themselves silly over them.

I think Gloria was one of my favourite additions to the sequel. She is an incredibly precocious, aspiring starlet, who has been left at the orphanage by her parents who aren’t dead -they have simply had enough of her! It might seem harsh to some readers but I found the whole idea incredibly funny!

Revenge of the Beast is a very funny, deliciously dark second book in the Beast and the Bethany series. Full of Dahl and Snicket-esque humour and stacks of imagination, I’m already looking forward to the third book!

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Revenge of the Beast by Jack Meggit-Phillips [book review]

Revenge of the Beast is just as good if not better than The Beast and The Bethany! #bookreview #bookblog @WriteReadsTours @The_WriteReads #bookblogger

Book: The Beast and the Bethany: Revenge of the Beast Author: Jack Meggitt-Phillips Published: March 22, 2022 Publisher: Aladdin Genre: Middle-Grade Fantasy Pages: 272 Amazon | Bookshop (more…)

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Beast and Bethany

The most exciting new children’s book of 2020 and a modern classic in the making. The Beast and the Bethany has all the classic macabre humour of Roald Dahl with the warmth and charm of Despicable Me, finished off with a gleeful bite of Little Shop of Horrors! This book should be on every little monster’s birthday and Christmas list.

Ebenezer Tweezer is a youthful 511-year-old. He keeps a beast in the attic of his mansion, who he feeds all manner of things (including performing monkeys, his pet cat and the occasional cactus) and in return the beast vomits out presents for Ebenezer, as well as potions which keep him young and beautiful. But the beast grows ever greedier, and soon only a nice, juicy child will do. So when Ebenezer encounters orphan Bethany, it seems like (everlasting) life will go on as normal. But Bethany is not your average orphan . . .”

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The Write Reads Blog Tour: The Beast and the Bethany by Jack Meggitt-Phillips

Author/illustrator: Jack Meggitt-Phillips, Isabelle Follath

Genre: MG Fantasy

Published by: Egmont

Publication date: 01/10/20

Pages: 256

My rating:  ★★★★★

I received a free review copy from The Write Reads and Egmont in exchange for an honest review.

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Ultimate Blog Tour: Revenge of the Beast by Jack Meggitt-Phillips

Today is my stop on the #UltimateBlogTour for Revenge of the Beast by @MeggittPhillips Thanks @WriteReadsTours and @FarshoreBooks for having me be a part of this fun and beastly tour! #BugOffBethany #FeastfortheBeast #RevengeoftheBeast

Thank you to TheWriteReads and Farshore Books, for a post on this tour! Genre: MG Fantasy Pages: 288 Pages Published: September 30, 2021 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Revenge-Beast-2-Bethany/dp/1534478922 Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58410828-revenge-of-the-beast Goodreads Synopsis Lemony Snicket meets Roald Dahl in this riotously funny, deliciously macabre, and highly…

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NOVEMBER WRAP-UP

I had a productive month in November, and I am happy I was able to complete 10 books. Though this month started slow like the past couple of months, I was excited to read the titles I had. I had a mixed bag of genres this month, and I really wanted it that way. Without further ado, let’s dive right into the ratings of the books.

1. The Cul-de-sac War By Melissa Ferguson – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4 Stars)

If…

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Un anno per me mooolto difficile che si chiude con una piccola soddisfazione. Nuvole zero felicità ventitré scelto tra i 5 migliori romanzi del 2021 per età 10+, quindi per tutti!

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The Beast and the Bethany: Revenge of the Beast by Jack Meggitt-Phillips #UltimateBlogTour #BookReview #Fantasy #MG #TheWriteReads

Join me today for my stop on #TheUltimateBlogTour by #TheWriteReads for the quirky MG Fantasy - The Beast and The Bethany: Revenge of the Beast by Jack Meggitt-Phillips #BookReview #Fantasy #MG @MeggittPhillips @FarshoreBooks @The_WriteReads

Thank you to Dave at The Write Reads for my spot on this blog tour. Book Info Genre: MG FantasyLength: 288 PagesPublishing: 30th September 2021Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Revenge-Beast-2-Bethany/dp/1534478922Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58410828-revenge-of-the-beast Blurb Lemony Snicket meets Roald Dahl in this riotously funny, deliciously macabre, and highly illustrated…

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The Beast and the Bethany by Jack Meggitt-Phillips, illustrated by Isabelle Follath

The Beast and the Bethany by Jack Meggitt-Phillips, illustrated by Isabelle Follath

The Beast and the Bethany by Jack Meggitt-Phillips, illustrated by Isabelle Follath. Aladdin, 2020. 9781534478893 Format: ARC (12/20 pub date) Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 3 Genre:  Fantasy/horror What did you like about the book? Ebenezer Tweezer is 511 years old, going on 512. The reason for his great age and good looks? The monster in his attic vomits up an…

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The Beast and the Bethany by Jack Meggitt-Phillips, illustrated by Isabelle Follath

The Beast and the Bethany by Jack Meggitt-Phillips, illustrated by Isabelle Follath

The Beast and the Bethany by Jack Meggitt-Phillips, illustrated by Isabelle Follath. Aladdin, 2020. 9781534478893 Format: ARC (12/20 pub date) Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 3 Genre:  Fantasy/horror What did you like about the book? Ebenezer Tweezer is 511 years old, going on 512. The reason for his great age and good looks? The monster in his attic vomits up an…

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Review: The Beast and the Bethany by Jack Meggitt-Phillips

I was extremely lucky to be invited on the blog tour for this upcoming middle-grade book, so thank you so much to the lovely people at The WriteReads and at Egmont for sending me this wonderfully quirky and intriguing ARC.

At 511 years old, Ebenezer Tweezer doesn’t look a day over 20. He has been taking a special potion provided for him by an ancient beast that has been in his care for centuries. However, the Beast has a terrible price for Ebenezer’s youth -Ebenezer must feed the Beast whatever it demands. Over the years, he has fed it countless objects, pieces of art, plants and animals but now the Beast wishes to eat something it has never eaten before... a child.

Ebenezer is a less than savory character from the very beginning but he has a strangely childlike innocence about him that gives him all the potential for redemption, so I suspected that would happen at some point. The above quote definitely made me stop and think because I’d never heard privilege described in quite this way before but it is of course true and the perfect, simple way of explaining it to kids.

Bethany is an extremely badly-behaved orphan but as the story develops, we learn that she has a very pure heart and actually just wants to be loved and understood. She is Ebenezer’s lesson on alternate realities to the one he has been living for 500 years and ultimately, it’s her fearlessness and empathy that inspires him to become a better person.

As well as being a funny, kooky fairytale, The Beast and the Bethany also has quite a bit of depth. The idea that sometimes seemingly decent humans are the most dangerous monsters is a lesson that everyone should learn as early as possible, so it’s important that this is a regular theme in children’s books. However, so is the theme of owning and learning from one’s mistakes, which is exactly what Ebenezer does. 

This little rhyme is at the very start of the book and despite there not being any other songs or poems in it, it set me up for a Roald Dahl vibe right from the beginning. Meggitt-Phillips keeps up this dark whimsical humour that is so reminiscent of Dahl and I found myself both laughing and curling my toes at how deliciously evil the Beast was.

There are also these wonderful illustrations by Isabelle Follath that bring extra life to the story. The whole gruesome tale has a fairytale-esque feel to it and these sketches really reminded me of some of the spooky story and poetry collections that I had as a kid. I know that these gorgeous pieces of art will pull even the most reluctant readers right into the magic of the story.

The Beast and the Bethany is an original, funny, addictive read that is ideal for 8-12 this Halloween. With added elements of Lemony Snicket and Dorian Gray, a touch of Walliams-esque weirdness and packed full of wisdom and important life lessons, it’s a possible future staple for every child’s bookshelf.

The Beast and the Bethany by Jack Meggitt-Phillips will be published by Egmont on 1st October 2020.

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Blog Tour: The Beast and the Bethany: Revenge of the Beast by Jack Meggitt-Phillips

Author: Jack Meggitt-Phillips Genre: MG Fantasy Published by: Farshore Publication date: 30/09/21 Pages: 288 My rating: ★★★★★ I received a free review copy from Farshore & The Write Reads in exchange for an honest review (more…)

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Ultimate Blog Tour: Revenge of the Beast by Jack Meggitt-Phillips

Today is my stop on the #UltimateBlogTour for Revenge of the Beast by @MeggittPhillips . Thanks @WriteReadsTours and @FarshoreBooks for having me be a part of this fun and beastly tour! #BugOffBethany #FeastfortheBeast #RevengeoftheBeast

Thank you to TheWriteReads and Farshore Books, for a post on this tour! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4.5 out of 5. Genre: MG Fantasy Pages: 288 Pages Published: September 30, 2021 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Revenge-Beast-2-Bethany/dp/1534478922 Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58410828-revenge-of-the-beast Goodreads Synopsis Lemony Snicket meets Roald Dahl in this riotously funny,…