This is the story about how a teenager in the 80s discovers that there are other people who are fans of scifi/fantasy, and how meeting them for the first time changes her life. Alternatively it is about getting through overwhelming grief one book at a time. Either way it is brilliant. Or maybe it is...
Some readers have found this novel's flaws to be off-putting enough to rate a lower score. I agree about a few of those flaws: the extraordinarily large number of references to other books was tiring at times; some story events unfolded in a way, or didn't, that seemed strange; and some things may h...
'Among Others' is the story of a teenage girl from Wales called Morwenna Phelps, or Mori for short. Mori is no ordinary teenager, she and her twin sister Mor are able to see fairies and use magic, like their mother. Except their mother is evil and the twins decide they must stop her at all costs. In...