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| The Butterfly Tattoo | 
 enlarge | Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Young Picador
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 15899
Format: Unabridged
Media: Paperback
Edition: Unabridged
Pages: 160
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 0330397966
EAN: 9780330397964
ASIN: 0330397966
Publication Date: September 2, 2005
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Philip Pullman is a highly acclaimed author of books for young people. His Dark Materials: Northern Lights won three awards in 1996; The Firework-Maker's Daughter won the 1996 Smarties Gold Award and Clockwork was shortlisted for the Whitbread Book of the Year 1997. The Butterfly Tattoo is an engrossing and agonising thriller. What starts out as an apparently harmless holiday job for 17-year-old Oxford 'A' level student Chris Marshall, slowly but surely turns into something quite other. Unhappy and traumatised by the break up of his parents' marriage, things start looking up for Chris when he falls in love with the beautiful, emotionally bruised Jenny. But then his boss's dangerously shady past slowly but surely starts catching up with him and before he knows it Chris has become the innocent cause of death and disaster. An ingeniously plotted, simply written and grippingly readable thriller which involves the reader in deep questions about the nature of innocence, criminality and social responsibility. --Tamsin Palmer
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Another Pullman in Another Oxford but Really Worth Reading May 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fans of Pullman's trilogy should receive a fair warning before moving any further. This is not Lyra's Oxford, this is our Oxford so expect thugs, sex, crime but also love, trust and friendship.
Pullman retells the story of Romeo and Juliet with extreme adroitness. He manages to keep the lyrical beauty and truth of the play and avoids desperate attempts of retaining any elements that would seem dated and out of place in a modern novel.
This is a novel for younger adults but if you feel that your 13+ year olds have never heard about sex, you may need to read it first yourself. The danger is you may get hooked on Pullman seriously.
 UTERLY FANTASTIC MOVING BOOK November 30, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is one of the best books i have EVER read for ages! i have never read these kind of books that are love story and very affectionate and emotional,but it really woke something inside me, but the ending was just heart breking! it was like this book was made for me, i love this book, it was perfect, and i just wished it had a happy ending......and i wished the story went on.....
thx pullman, this book was FANTASTIC.
 Disappointing ... October 4, 2006
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Both "The Butterfly Tattoo" and "The Broken Bridge" are decidedly avarage books, which is pretty much all there is to say abou them. Coming from Philip Pullman they are utterly disappointing. I loved both the "His Dark Materials" trilogy and the Sally Lockhart books, but fiction seems to be Philip Pullman's (only?) weak point.
 its hard to believe that this is philip pullman! June 6, 2006
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
i read his dark materials before this, and then went to investigate other pullman books. however this is not to the same standard as the trilogy. it is a very done storyline, and to make it special an author has to give it somethig different. pullman hasn't. it is a simple and slightly boring love story with a wierd ending. i think that this is what he based part of the amber spyglass on, but there he has done it so much better. i wouldn't read this if your looking for a good read. pullmans sally books are okay, but none of his work matches up to the dark materials trilogy. not recommended.
Quite average 'coming-of-age' tale for teenagers May 19, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Like so many, I was enthralled by Pullman's work in the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy (gosh, even though I can't bear that collective title) - this is the only other of his novels I have read that didn't come under the banner of the Lyra/William saga (there was also a spin-off called 'Lyra's Oxford' which I remember enjoying). I haven't read him since, mostly because I didn't want to be further put off by his writing - and so, I thought it would be good to have a less complimentary review on this page to balance it out.
The book is a basic teenage/'young adult' first-love (or lust?) story, although having said that, I haven't read anything else aimed at this market. I borrowed this short novel from a library, and was suitably glad that I didn't buy it; while being a decent enough read, it is mostly cold - even the vaguely romantic scenes are delivered emotionlessly. I remember (it was a while ago) the feeling that Pullman was rattling through the plot, avoiding detail or description, which wasn't a favourable approach for a story of this kind. Also, the 'intriguing' plotting towards the end (after the relationship portion) was quite bland - not that the events themselves were uninteresting, more so that the writing engendered little suspense.
I think this was Pullman's first novel - forgive me if I am incorrect - and therefore I imagine he was still finding his feet in fiction before his truly extraordinary work, like 'His Dark Materials'. If you are interested in Pullman, after his magnum opus, you could try this novel for something a little different - but I wouldn't recommend purchasing it. See if they have it in your library, or don't bother.
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