Wednesday: A Novelisation of Series One by Tehlor Kay Mejia and the Wednesday TV Show Writers
Wednesday is Pinocchio. Or, if you want, Wednesday Addams, in Tehlor Kay Mehia's excellent novelisation of Netflix's first series, reinstantiates that eternal hero (in the Joseph Campbell sense) best known in the guise of Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio. With the light hand of a master of their craft, Mejia pulls out the plot points charting Wednesday's journey from a wooden caricature of herself to a Real Girl. Mejia was not handed an easy job. The series, starring (in case you didn't know) Jenna Ortega as the title character, is narrated by Wednesday's inner monologue while also featuring scenes she doesn't witness, which prime viewers for plot developments Wednesday doesn't expect. Tim Burton stitches these threads together onscreen to make an organic whole, but the method wouldn't have survived migrating to the written form. So Mejia has chosen Wednesday's voice to narrate her whole journey and has had to let her incorporate developments she ...