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The Black Book Of Secrets
By FE Higgins

Magic frog? Magic book? Magic man? How does that sound?

            The black book of secrets incorporates a significant amount of themes and topics that are important. Joe zabbidou the main character has the ability to get money without actually working, instead he pays the occupants in the Pagus Parvus village for their secrets. The Boss as he calls himself is Jeremiah Ratchet, he manipulates everyone with threatening them about divulging their secrets. Joe helps the villagers get rid of those secrets by writing down the ones that he gets told and keeps them in the book. "The book is confidential and I will never surrender"(204). The symbol for writing them in the book is so that the people are supposed to be liberated from them and not feel so much guilt about the bad things that some have done. The villagers of course were afraid of Jeremiah so then the opportunity of standing up to him were not in there intentions. But as they began to take more and more with Joe they finally realized that he couldn't manipulate them any more or go and take stuff from their homes or businesses.  When Jeremiah tries to steal the book from Joe the magic frog bites his arm and later on,"a creeping numbness spread un his arms and throughout his body. His chest tightened. This threat swelled."(209) After this something happens to Jeremiah…...find out!!!

         Indeed this was a very good book but not one of my favorites, I like how its mythical and includes fantasy. The plot of the story I feel was pretty drastic because at the beginning of the book the frog was never shown as anything more then just a frog. He was always mentioned in at least one of three chapters but just to the extent of him being in his cage and when he was fed or when someone tried to touch it, Joe would tell them not to because she didn't like it. But throughout the book the author begins to include the frog more and describe what it looks like, and what it likes and what it dislikes.  The mystery it includes is very intriguing and makes you want to continue reading.
     
                  I do recommend this book to all ages because it's fun to read and it makes you think abstractly. But it also teaches a lesson that I got from it which was that karma is always gonna get you back, even if that means waiting a long time for it to strike you. If you are doing something wrong then what you should be prepared for is also something bad coming for you. No one should feel as more then others because of what they have which was in the case of Jeremiah, he took advantage of the poor people and that's what he lived off of eventhough the poor people worked hard.