Helen Grant is one of the few YA authors to have gotten her novels reviewed by the mainstream newspapers - The Guardian, The Times, etc. have given her glowing reviews you'll find spotted across the back cover of her books. This unusual sight made me pick up The Glass Demon, and I am pleased to repo...
An adult book that has miles of teen appeal. It's a mystery with creepy religious supernatural overtones and it moves at a fast pace. My quibble is with the depiction of the sister's eating disorder - the results show up way too fast.
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 them o...
I saw someone refer to this book as horror and I would say that it is NOT horror. It is the story of something horrible that happened in a small German town as told through the eyes of one of it's resident children. I don't really think there is anything "new" to this story. There's a mystery and...
This book was a really cute book, but it was really quirky. I am not sure with the storyline and writing style why it wasn't considered a young adult book though. It was still an enjoyable, light read.
Set in Germany, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden has all the hallmarks of a fairy tale. In fact, Pia and Stefan remind me of Hansel and Gretel, trying to solve an adult's problem at the age of ten. The German setting adds a certain charm to the entire novel. Ms. Grant does a tremendous job of d...
I won an advanced copy of this book from Goodreads. Having previously read "Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie" and Peter Abrams- Echo Falls series, where both protagonists are pre-teen, capricious, girl sleuths, I have to say... Peter Abrams did the best job. Helen Grants character Pia, comes from ...
In the small, quiet German town of Bad Munstereifel, news and gossip travel fast. When young girls seemingly disappear, the town is abuzz with fear and excitement, ready to point fingers at the likely suspect. To ten-year-old Pia Kolvenbach, the vanishings seem to be right out of a fairy tale. Drawn...
The Glass Demon is one of those books I knew was going to be good right from the very first lines. In just two lines Grant effectively sets up a feeling of impending doom, and with the third sets up the first death - and thus the rest of the book. With such a strong opening, standards are high for t...
Pia Kolvenbach is known as "the girl whose grandmother's head exploded" in a freak accident at the Advent Dinner table. Advent Candle met Aqua Net hairspray...the rest was "history", with which Pia has to live every day. When young girls start to disappear, Pia and her trusty sidekick, StinkStefan, ...
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