Emily the Strange: The Lost Days

Love the book, and i love emily! the only complaint i have is that the book came with the "i" cut out? not sure what that's about..

Lost Days is the most psychedelic book on the shelves. It's a quirky mystery and just when you're about to find out what happens... Something happens. I loved this book so much that I blogged about it, and wrote the date of the sequel's release on my calendar. If you like stories that never fail to surprise you, you'll love Lost Days. Enough said.

I have heard talk of this character even seen Dark horse listing the comic in magazines but never picked up any of its merchandise till I saw this book on the self. The book isn't written in traditional chapter format but more as if you were reading Emily's notebook that she is always writing and doodling stuff she learns about herself in. Emily's a gifted girl who wakes up one day with no memory, in one of the strangest towns short of the Twilight Zone. Her dress pockets are like a black hole that can hold anything, she a whiz at fixing things and find the mysterious person running El Dungeon Cafe among the most interest next to the medicine show boy who can read mines. Too bad Emily's mind is blank. She lives in a card board box in a alley with a bunch of cats while she try to figure out who she is and what kind of job she might be in the town to do other than finding out who she is.

I'm a huge Emily the Strange fan. I have been a fan for some time now. Upon hearing about this book I clapped my hands with glee and directed myself to the nearest bookstore. I must say that I am throughoutly pleased with this book. The literary style of the book is pure Emily. If you are new to Emily the Strange you might become a bit confused with the random style of the book. My best advice is to just go with the flow. The storyline is interesting and the illustrations to accompany it are outstanding. My only critique would be the mentioning of Emily's Mom. Up until recently Emily has had no parents whatsoever. She's always been portrayed as this strange little girl who lives with her four cats in an old dilapidated Victorian styled house in the middle of nowhere. I think this move to give Emily parents really ruins the mystery of her character. On the other hand, you never know, Emily's "Mom" might turn out to be a golem. ;)

I ran into this book at the store and have been obsessed with it since. If I'd known it would have taken a week to get here I would have bought it at the store when I had the chance. Great plot, fantastic story, and the writing makes it pretty believable even though I'd never heard of Emily the Strange before. Some things were left out of the book. Like how the people left in Blackrock will support themselves and what Raven was doing in the secret room before Emily found it. But there's some more coming so I'll see if they answer that later.

Emily wakes up with "a wicked case of amnesia." She does not know her name, where she is, and why she is there. Through diary entries she follows the clues to her identity and her secret mission. The Lost Days is quite imaginative, filled with daring feats and odd characters. The story is a spy adventure with element of fantasy. Emily is self-confident in her own identity, even when she does not know who she is. She uses math, science, and deductive reasoning to solve her mystery and succeed at her mission. Written in short chapters (diary entries) with black-and-red artwork, this book can be enjoyed by even the most reluctant reader.