Review: The Addams Family

The Addams Family by Elizabeth Faucher
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I have a thing about novelisations of movies, being that I like to read them. It's a cool way of seeing the fuller picture, and seeing what little bits didn't make it. The Addams Family is more of a junior novel that a full novelisation, but it still manages to help fill in little gaps in the movie. It also stands pretty well as a book in its own right.

As we know, the story follows the return of "Fester" to the family, after 25 years away, except he may not really be "Fester" after all... The characters are the strong points, as they always are in anything Addams related. Even in text, their personalities shine through strongly, and you can feel the warmth and care this family have for each other. A particular highlight is the relationship between Gomez and Morticia. Married and with children, their passion still rings as true as the day they met. For anyone who says writing married couples leads to staleness, well they've clearly never met those two.

Really, the only downside to the book is that it is pretty short and simplistic. I wish there were more Addams Family novels, not just comic collections. It would be fun to read more about them.

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