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Dark Satanic Mills by Marcus Sedgwick
2.0

This gets an extra point for the idea behind it - I'm kindly predisposed to anyone who uses Blake as inspiration - but the execution is clumsy. It's as subtle as a brickbat, basically, and the bad guys fall into stereotype. The illustrations also didn't do too much for me. Mostly they just felt indistinct, though as I tend to prefer cleaner lines, that's a matter of personal preference more than anything else.