A brother chosen. A brother left behind. And the only way home is to find him. Leon is nine, and has a perfect baby brother called Jake. They have gone to live with Maureen, who has fuzzy red hair like a halo, and a belly like Father Christmas. But the adults are speaking in lowContinue reading “Review: ‘My Name Is Leon’ by Kit de Waal”
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Review: ‘The Raven Boys’ by Maggie Stiefvater
“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.” It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive. Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walkContinue reading “Review: ‘The Raven Boys’ by Maggie Stiefvater”
Review: ‘We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves’ by Karen Joy Fowler
Meet the Cooke family. Our narrator is Rosemary Cooke. As a child, she never stopped talking; as a young woman, she has wrapped herself in silence: the silence of intentional forgetting, of protective cover. Something happened, something so awful she has buried it in the recesses of her mind. Now her adored older brother isContinue reading “Review: ‘We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves’ by Karen Joy Fowler”
Review: ‘Church of Marvels’ by Leslie Parry
New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, determined to find where she belongs. Odile Church and her beautiful sister, Belle, were raised amid the applause and magical pageantry of TheContinue reading “Review: ‘Church of Marvels’ by Leslie Parry”
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