Publication date: Available Now from Corgi Childrens. Source: Purchased Copy Seventeen-year-old Veerle is bored with life in suburban Brussels. But a chance encounter with a hidden society, whose members illegally break into unoccupied buildings around the city, soon opens up a whole new world o...
A lack of any likeable characters, most notably a charmless and self-centered protagonist, makes this a disappointing read. It's too bad, as the premise was excellent and the potential was right there. While I did like the use of the occasional intriguing vocabulary word, Grant's strange metaphors...
Lin Fox is not having a good time. Her father decides to take a sabitacal in a snit about being overlooked for a professorship. Then he hears about a missing stained glass set that have been supposed to be destroyed years ago. He takes the opportunity to chase them to Germany, dragging all of the...
This is going straight into my personal ”Favorite & Beast Books of 2013” pile!Among the mitigating factors why this book became a favorite of mine is that I am a medievalist; I love a good mystery; I spent a year, which included a summer, wandering the countryside of Germany before my senior year, v...
Lin Fox and her family are moving to Germany for a year. Her father is a history lecturer who dreams of a glamorous TV career, and is taking his family with him on a sabbatical year in Germany after he was passed over for a promotion. While driving to the village they're to live in for the next year...
The best way to create a sense of fear (or other derivatives of that emotion) is to take the main characters of a book and displace them. To take them away from all that is comforting and familiar and place them in a setting that is foreign, unknown and as such, evocative of fear and uncertainty. Wh...
An engrossing tale from the point of view of a British high school girl, living in Germany with her family, who encounters the legend of a demon embedded in stained glass. Present day issues like anorexia contribute to the sense of foreboding. Dark forests, an evil priest, a "not normal" older broth...
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