As a whole, it served as wonderful escapist entertainment, with big dashes of humanity and nostalgia. We also get to know the deceased Bob fairly well, which I liked a lot, as well as some of the stranger creatures from the eponymous film. I really enjoyed Jack undergoing extensive character growth throughout the story and developing as a person within a relatively short span of time. The Shadow Glass is fast paced and plot-driven, but its characters don’t suffer because of it. But this is brilliant and manages to hit those nostalgic feels without going too far into absurdist comedy. Lydia from Titan sold me the book as her favourite book of the year in the publicity email, and I’m so glad I listened and requested it, as the blurb had it sounding quite out there and I wasn’t sure if it would click with me. I was reading this while traveling across London on the tube, and was very upset when my journey was over and I had to pause – only to race through the rest on my way home. OPINIONS: I absolutely devoured The Shadow Glass. Tipped into a desperate real-world quest to save London from the more nefarious of his father’s creations, Jack teams up with excitable fanboy Toby and spiky studio executive Amelia to navigate the labyrinth of his father’s legacy while conjuring the hero within––and igniting a Shadow Glass resurgence that could, finally, do his father proud. Then, during a freak thunderstorm, the puppets in the attic start talking. In the wake of Bob’s death, Jack returns to his decaying home, a place creaking with movie memorabilia and painful memories.

Now, the film represents everything Jack hated about his father, and he lives with the fear that he’ll end up a failure just like him. Back in the eighties, Bob poured his heart and soul into the creation of his 1986 puppet fantasy The Shadow Glass, a film Jack loved as a child, idolising its fox-like hero Dune.īut The Shadow Glass flopped on release, deemed too scary for kids and too weird for adults, and Bob became a laughing stock, losing himself to booze and self-pity. Jobless, jaded and on the “wrong” side of thirty, he’s facing the threat of eviction from his London flat while reeling from the sudden death of his father, one-time film director Bob Corman.

The shadow glass by josh winning