The premise is very intriguing. I was so excited reading it, until page 100-200. And then I was disappointed with the execution. Too many coincidences and when cornered, the characters seem to know the right thing to do. How could one blab in ancient spells without really knowing them? So many lo...
This book is a mess. The premise is quite good actually, a girl named Belladonna can see ghosts and talk to them. But one day, all ghosts are gone. She investigates about the missing ghosts and crossing over to the Other Side, the land of the dead.Sadly, the execution of the story is really poor....
There was a somewhat interesting story hiding in Spellbinder by Helen Stringer, but it was overshadowed by the author's inability to dole out information properly (the main method seemed to be that instead of saying something useful/expositiony, the people talking would get incredibly irritated, ...
As soon as they’d arrived at the gray concrete building, Mrs. Lazenby had signed in at the door, thanked Constable Dodd for his help, and led the way back through a maze of narrow corridors and cubicles to a small office with a window that looked over the car park. She hadn’t taken Belladonna int...
He was sitting next to the window on the back seat, lost in thought. The short October days meant that it was nearly dark by the time they got back, and the streets around the school were clogged with the cars of parents unwilling to let their kids find their own ways home through the gloomy stre...