Manchester Book Award. 24 books. 1 winner. You decide.

THE BEAUTIFUL DEAD: JONAS by EDEN MAGUIRE

48 reviews of The Beautiful Dead: Jonas

  1. Sandesh Somani

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    This book is amazing! One of the best I’ve read. I couldn’t stop reading it. It’s full of suspense and mystery. I like the idea of coming back to life to and not really being alive but can still deliver powerful embraces. Eden’s literature is very strong and builds a real movie inside your head. I hope Eden Maguire wins this year!
    9/10
    Age Rating: 11+

  2. This book was really touching and also very interesting. It was about five children. Four of them had died within a year and were all from the same school. These children were given a chance to go fom limbo (a place where the spirit of the dead go) to go and live among the living but in a seperate place to find out how or why they died. This book focuses on Jonas. Darina was a girl who helped Jonas solve the mystery of his death and will help the others as well. She was also Phoenix’s (one of the dead) girlfriend. This book was one of the books that got my vote. It is so brilliant, you have read it if you haven’t!

  3. This book is realy unusual and original. It is a real page turner and you cant put it down once you’ve started to read it. The plot of the story at first may not interest you but once you start to read it you will know that this book is not one to miss. I really like the characters. I would give it a 6 out of 10 because the story drags a bit when it gets to the middle.

  4. Jamie Gibson

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    I think that this book is ok.
    But I don’t think the language and described words are all that good, because the book is quite hard to understand, but I think if they improved the language a bit then it could be a good book.
    Rating 7/10
    age rating 13+

  5. Ciaran Gallagher

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    Beautiful dead is a great book with twists and turns on almost every page. The Beautiful Dead are people that have come back from limbo to resovle the mysteries surrounding their deaths. Darina sees four dead friends Jonas,Arizona,Summer and her boyfriend Pheonix. She is then dragged into something she never thought possible……
    Best book I’ve ever read 10/10

  6. The beautiful dead is breath-taking.i couldn’t stop reading the book.It had brilliant vocabulary and a eye-catching front cover.The writer should be proud what she had produced she is sensational. best book so far. Darina was my favorite charactar she was brave and she stood up for herself.darina would do anything for her boyfriend since he died from someone stabbing him.four stundents died in the same year and darina is willing to find justice for all of them.

  7. What happens after death?
    Whats more important, the love of your life or being able to live your life like a normal, sane person?
    After the death of her boyfriend and finding out about about the beautiful dead, Darina has to make a desision that could change her entire life.
    An amazing book thats full of emotion.
    I would recomend it to anyone whos in for a great read.
    i would rate this book 9/10

  8. Owen Roberts

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    A really interesting book that keeps hold of you. I even read it in maths. It has A REALLY interesting story-base and it is really fabricated. It is cool how Bob drives Matt of the cliff and kills him at the very end. I can’t wait for the ARIZONA book to come out. 8/10

  9. I think this book is a fab book! A sure win. It was full of enough description that I could run a movie in my head! The idea of the beautiful dead is a fab idea. I think Eden has a good chance of winning and I have recomended this book to my friends! Can’t wait to read the others.
    The best thing about it is that in the imaginary world is met by the real world -it works! I love this book! Best wishes and good luck to you Eden!

  10. meena maarij

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    I really loved the this book. At first, when i looked at the cover i thought it would be quiet boring but i chose to read it anyway. After reading it for a while i got really into it, and i know many people say this but it really made me want to get as much information as i could and i finished it in about 4 hours. i started reading the book and it was a bit confusing but later on it explains all your questions. Also at first i thought how could have this book got on the top six, but really the more you read the better it gets and more intresting as well. i was really sad when this book ended , but then my friend told me that the second book was already out and i was really excited about reading on and finding out what happens next. Also it is kind of like Twilight, the girl find the secret of the ‘mysterious people’ and she falls in love with the guy or already is in love with the guy, and there is a leader and there is someone who is against the fact that the girl should know about this and is afraid that their secret will be out which is that they have all come back from the dead or they are dead but they could die permenently anyday. It is alot like Twilight but of course that doesn’t mean that it is exactly that same because it so very much isn’t. Overall, this is a very enjoyable book and i would recommened it to anyone who loves books. Very good book. :)