by Alethea Kontis
Welcome to Friday's story. This is another one that takes place during Saturday's flood, but this time we get a look at Arriland itself and the refugees that quickly crowd the palace looking for shelter. Friday finds herself caught in duties of watching the children and stitching together new clothe...
this was my least favorite. everything was too easy, too set. enjoyable, but not great.So I keep coming back to this book and why it doesn't work. The major problem is that there's no real tension. We already know the ocean is going away because Saturday's story was told first, and she removes the o...
Friday Woodcutter, sister to Queen Sunday of a magical land finds herself overtaken by an impossible ocean. She is rescued by a squire and brought back to her kingdom to find that she was not the only one affected by the sudden appearance of an ocean. Now that her home is filled with refugees, Frida...
Thank you to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers for sending me an ARC of the book to review.One note should be made before I proceed with this review – I hadn’t read the other two books prior to this one, so needless to say it was a bit unusual to go diving right into the world of the...
I received this book as part of a GoodReads first reads giveaway. With the first two books the Woodcutter Sisters series, Alethea Kontis proved to me that she was one of the most inventive and talented YA writers out there. with the third book, Dearest, she, in my mind, cements this reputation. De...