Having enjoyed the film, my god son was looking for anything and everything he could get his hands on. This is the perfect book to get young kids into reading. If offers a deeper insight into character, therefore rewarding the reader.

This is a fantastic addition to the new Addams family movie and the whole Addams family 'brand'. Well written and a fun storyline. Really enjoyable.

Thank you to Harper Collins U.K., Children’s for sending me an ebook review copy through NetGalley of The Addams Family: The Story Of The Movie written by Calliope Glass.

I really enjoyed reading this book, it was a whole new take on what we know of the Addams Family but it worked really well. It had modern elements mixed with their dark macabre world.

For 13 years they lived in an old asylum covered I. fog and didn’t know that a whole suburban town had been built near them created by a reality tv host who wants to build a perfect town and is desperate to remove the Addamses and their house from it.

I loved Wednesdays progression in the story wanting to know more of what was out there even though it wasn’t what her family did and in return she found a friend that liked her style of living more than what she originally had. Alongside with Pugsly having to learn his families traditional dance and fight to protect his family he had to learn and struggled to learn and desperately didn’t want to fail his family legacy.

I really liked how the two types of worlds collided and it was funny, it was entertaining and it was a very good easy read.

Thank you to Harper Collins and Netgalley for accepting my request to read this book.

I'll admit it, I absolutely love the Addams Family! I've loved the previous films and I adore the musical! I am also excited to watch the new animated movie so when I saw a movie tie-in book I knew I had to read it!

This book has everything I love about the Addams Family and I smiled all the way through reading it!

It begins with an Addams wedding, we see Gomez and Mortician get married and its a true Addams Family wedding! We meet a lot of the characters people will know such as Gomez, Morticia, Thing, Fester, Grandma Addams, Lurch, Pugsley, Wednesday and Cousin It. Plus many more Addamses and other folk.

Gomez and Moricia move into an abandoned mansion (previously an asylum) in New Jersey where they are hidden from the town my a bog and fog until they are revealed. The town looks to be a nice town with normal people. The town is part of a to show hosted by Margaux who takes a dislike to the strangeness that is the Addams Family.

I really enjoyed reading this! It has everything I love about the Addams Family in it and I am super excited to see it animated! If you want a quick Halloween read than I would highly recommend this book!

My thanks to HarperCollins U.K. Children’s for an eARC via NetGalley of Calliope Glass’ ‘The Addams Family: the Story of the Movie’ in exchange for an honest review.

This is a novelisation of the upcoming animated Addams Family movie being released in October. Looking at the trailer for the film it’s nice to see that the creators have drawn inspiration from the original character designs.

Rather than have the Addams Family as long established residents of New England, here the story opens in the Old Country with the wedding of Gomez Addams to Morticia Frump during which villagers with torches and pitchforks show up. Having escaped the newlyweds wonder where they can go now? “The Frumps had been driven out of nearly every community in Western Europe by now, and the Addamses had exhausted all of Eastern Europe. There had just been so many pitchfork-wielding mobs over the last few centuries.”

So they opt for New Jersey and purchase a crumbling Gothic pile that had formerly been a hospital for the criminally insane. Thirteen years pass and the family keeps to themselves yet in the nearby Eastfield Estates, Margaux Needler, the reality tv star of ‘Design Intervention’ realises that the Addams Family mansion is spoiling the view of their new houses for sale! She is determined to rectify the situation one way or another.

I adored the Addams Family from an early age and am old enough to have watched the original tv series and later collected some of the anthologies of Charles Addams’ macabre drawings. Whether they encouraged me to love all things Gothic or I saw in them a reflection of my inclinations is hard to say.

This was a quick, fun read that provides a sense of the plot of the upcoming animated film and wetting the appetite for the film’s visuals. I am excited that a new generation of children will be introduced to the wonderfully spooky Addams Family and that both this book and the film has a clear message of tolerance towards those who are different.