This reminded me a lot of L. A. Meyers Bloody Jack series. Both series have spunky heroines in not so ideal situations. Cat was interesting and relatable and the other characters were engaging as well. The plot was fast moving and the action was intense. I liked it.
Read December 25-26th, 2009A fun and immersing fantasy novel with plenty of action and a love story, against a massive political background.Taoshira, Fourth Crown Princess of the Crescent Islands and former goat-herder was plucked from obscurity to become a symbol of her people's government and reli...
Fabulous. It's a hard thing to write historical characters dealing with situations that modern readers find intolerable, but which were (at least largely) acceptable. Golding does a great job with Cat. She's human and of her time, but well suited to be exposed to the broad range of thought during...
I was utterly charmed by this very fascinating first book in a new quartet by Julia Golding. I only "discovered" Julia Golding about a year ago, but if she continues in this fashion, she'll soon become a new favourite fantasy author.What I really loved about Secret of the Sirens is that it's not as ...
In style the plot reminded me of a mixture of Peter Pan, Treasure Island and Pirates of the Caribbean. A sweet book for kids and YA. I hadn't expected much from it, so I was pleasantly surprised. Sure, I'm quite a bit older than the target audience, but it was charming enough to entertain me as well...
The third installment of the "Cat Royal" series has all the requisite action and humor that I have come to expect, but I found Golding's representation of the French Revolution trite and inaccurate, presenting only a very tiny facet of what was an enormously complex situation. In Cat's eyes, apart f...
Continuing Cat Royal's misadventures and escapades, Cat Among the Pigeons focuses on the Abolition movement in England once Pedro is taken by his slave master, who wants to reclaim him and take him back to Jamaica to be made an example of. Highly enjoyable drama, just like a good play. A farce, but ...
I did like it, despite the global warming doomsday warnings strewn throughout. I still like Connie's character and her friends, esp. Rat. Very inconclusive ending though,what with Connie partly a mythical creature herself, and still striving with Kullervo for mastery (that was far from over), and wi...
Book One of the Companions Quartet. Eco-fantasy. A sometimes overtly environmental propaganda mixed with all sorts of mythic creatures and their human companions.Connie, aged 11, is a petite, black-haired girl who is essentially a loner and an outcast. Because of her uncanny connection to animals an...
In the second book of the Companions Quartet, Connie, now 12, is taken away from Evelyn, her friends in Hescombe and the Society when her borderline insane Great Aunt Godiva shows up, at the behest of her "concerned" parents, with sweet, but docile Great Uncle Hugh in tow. They take her to live with...
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