The Crowfield Curse
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781906427764
Publisher: The Chicken House
Pages no: 314
Edition language: English
Series: Crowfield Abbey (#1)
Walsh builds up this magical medieval world very well; I could feel the cold in my bones as I read. The story has a good dose of dark creeping horror, too, and is meaty enough to stand on its own even though it's the first in a trilogy, I think. Although life is hard at the monastery, the monks are ...
Serafina is an odd girl, right down to her bones. She’s missing a toe on each foot, and she prowls the night, killing rats in her unofficial capacity as the Biltmore Estate Chief Rat Catcher. She skitters up drapes and tapestries, and she longs to have a true friend. One night, as she prowls around,...
This book rather reminds me of the Harry Potter series. William is a strong, kindhearted fourteen year old off to save the abbey from an evil king. The year is 1347, and young, 14 year old William is a monks apprentice at the Crowfield abbey. When sent out into the woods William finds a hobgoblin ...
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This story really did suck me in. Will is a boy who survived his family dying in a fire. The local abbey took him in as an odd-job man and he has befriended at least one of the monks. The old abbot is dying and there is a feeling of change about to come over the monastery. The story opens with W...
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