Can one small boy defeat evil? Can he harness the power of science, faith, and love to save the world as we know it?

Bursting with imagination and impossible to put down, The Gates is about the pull between good and evil, physics and fantasy. It is about a quirky and eccentric boy, who is impossible not to love, and the unlikely cast of characters who give him the strength to stand up to a demonic power.

In this wonderfully strange and brilliant novel, John Connolly manages to re-create the magical and scary world of childhood that we've all left behind but so love to visit. And for those of you who thought you knew everything you could about particle physics and the universe, think again. This novel makes anything seem possible.

Thoughts:

I should not have enjoyed The Gates as much as I did. With a bizarre mix of science and the supernatural, none of the characters behaved in a way that made sense. The Gates was so incredibly strange that most people won't get it. I'm not even sure I completely got it.

One of my favorite things about The Gates was the strange (and very British) sense of humor. I thought the demons were more silly than funny. I was expecting more of a scary story, but I got a spoof novel of sorts instead. I'm not usually a fan those types of novels, but this one was just so amusing. John Connolly really knows how to created colorful characters. One of my favorite characters was the goofy demon, Nurd. Nurd was such a charming and sweet little demon. I wanted to just jump into the book and take him home to hang out with me and my cats.

I also liked the mix of both science of the supernatural in The Gates. I don't think I've read many other books that have a mix of both fact and superstition. I've heard about the work at CERN before and John Connolly obviously did his homework.

This is such a hard book to review, so I'm keeping this one short. There was only one thing that bugged me about The Gates; footnotes! Footnotes are annoying and should never EVER be in a fictional novel. I'm also not sure what the target audience for this book would be. I picked up my copy in the adult section, but The Gates had a very childlike feel to it.

Overall, I had a really fun time reading The Gates, but I would only recommend it to other weirdos like me. xD