Maybe 2.5 stars. It was hard to emotionally connect with the characters; they're so vapid. But I almost think that's the style of this particular book. It's not so character driven as it is plot driven. I almost never really cared what happened to any of them. Though by the end your heartstr...
In this sequel to ‘Masque of the Red Death’, Araby’s world is in shambles and filled with betrayal, death and disease. Evil surrounds her and she doesn’t have anyone that she can trust. Through these tough events she finds herself and becomes a stronger individual who doesn’t try to lose herself ...
Roderick stops at the wall that surrounds the herb garden and scrapes together enough snow to make a ball, and then he throws it directly at me. I gasp as the cold hits my face, some of it sliding into the recesses of the shapeless coat. “I’m sorry,” he says. “I suppose that’s the sort of thing o...
After he leaves, I pace back and forth in my bedroom. Without him, my excitement gives way to a sort of despair, and I collapse onto my bed and cry. At bedtime, I gulp down my sleeping draft. There are no explosions in the night, but I still sleep poorly. I don’t tell Fath...