I found this novel to be very fast reading, fun, moody, sometimes verging on horror (it was definitely dark fantasy), and an improvement over the first installment in this series. Some of the problems I had with the first volume in the series – a dull second act, or at least one in which nothing ...
A great, if somewhat bittersweet ending to a solid trilogy. I don’t know why this book series is not more widely read than it is. Though I thought that the initial book in the trilogy had a few issues, the writing got better and better, culminating in the very well written final volume, with soli...
A fun and sweet book, this is more of a young-adult novel than an adult novel, although it is marketed towards adults. The protagonist, Fern, is a sixteen-year-old girl with a strong personality in a small world comprising her brother, father, and their mysterious inherited Yorkshire manor. The b...
It was only when she got home Hazel realized she had left the horseshoes behind. It can’t matter, she told herself; Great-grandma won’t notice. She could go back but she had homework to do: Annie was the sort of person who insisted weekend homework should be done on Friday night or Saturday morni...