Review: Dark and delightful.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 17, 2014
With middle grade novels there is a fine line between humor and corniness. Mr. Mallon at times tows that line, but never crosses it to pander to third graders. There are deeply serious themes at play in “The Darkness Within”: Death, revenge, justice. Older readers will appreciate the more mature approach to character development which grounds the story when things could have easily gotten ridiculous.