Review
“Et toi, un super-Markus ! Ce soir, c’est toi qui as fait preuve d’un grand courage. Je salue ta bravoure.”
A charming story of a boy who’s afraid of the dark and his mother who wants to make him comfortable by giving him a pet gecko. Markus et le gecko, like any children’s book, is a straight forward tale with a dash of fantasy in it.
Markus is unable to sleep at night. He is afraid. And his fears has created things out of his imaginations – or are they? – that either keeps him up at night or makes him feel exhausted in the morning due to his restlessness. When his mom gave him a pet, he couldn’t place why she gave him a gecko, but it’ll soon unravel with the story’s progression.
This was a cute read and I enjoyed every part of it. I related to Markus and his fear of the dark. When I was younger, I remember running from the switch to my room whenever I had to turn off the lights. Or when I had to run under the sheets during a same scenario. You never stop thinking that, perhaps, a creature that shows up in the dark is lurking around, following you. So to have this sort of book, a companion that shows you that there is nothing to fear in the dark is truly special. I wish I got to read this book when I was younger.
