I don't really know how I feel about this book. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it and I didn't want to put it down in some parts. But some parts were just down right ridiculous. I feel like I didn't connect with the characters very well. Miranda and Phillips were both likable characters but I didn't ...
I do so love paranormal stories with plots that incorporate strange and/or mysterious circumstances surrounding real historical events, and this book certainly fits that description. Considered one of America's oldest and biggest unsolved mysteries, the Lost Colony of Roanoke was an attempt by Queen...
Review: Many many years ago, 114 people disappeared for no reason from Roanoke Island. Modern day Roanoake, anotoehr 114 people have gone. Miranda and Phillips are two random teenagers, both outcasts due to her connection to the island and his hearing voices of the dead, who take on the task of find...
I might go back to this at some point, but for now, I just don't care enough about any of it, and the writing is too shallow and easy to hold my attention, so I'm setting it to the side.
Not the sort of book to blow me away in sheer awe, but not a bad one by any means. I thought the "fannish teenager" side of the main character was pretty well captured, and the plot was okay enough, although a little thin at times.
Miranda is an outcast, branded as a Freak. It also doesn’t help that her dad is the town drunk. But she goes through life trying to cope, until one day the unexplainable happens and a 114 towns people disappear, among them her father and her friend. The story of The Lost Colony is a very interesting...
The second I heard that Blackwood featured the disappearance of the Roanoke colonists, I HAD to read it. The Roanoke mystery is one of my favorite historical conundrums. What happened to them? Where did they go? Did anyone survive?This one begins in present day Roanoke Island. Miranda Blackwood is a...
Blackwood is the debut novel of Gwenda Bond.You might recall the story of Roanoke Island and the Lost Colony from your history classes. Somewhere around 120 people (114 for the purposes of this story) vanished from the English settlement on Roanoke Island. The only clue as to what happened to the co...
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