Okay, but nowhere near as good as Jones usually is. I think this one suffered from being in novella form—it felt like it needed to be a short story or a full-length novel. (June 2008)
Novella. Hayley is sent away from her strict Grandma and indulgent Grandpa to her cousins, where she learns about her family history and the mythosphere. Fun, engaging, too short; doesn't have the emotional hit of the best Wynne Jones and the ending is even more rushed than usual, but the game its...
Hayley is a young orphan living with her grandmother, whose strict rules and serious manner have whittled all the fun out of Hayley's life. Luckily, her grandfather loves to teach her the oddest things--including a glimpse at the "mythosphere". From that first glimpse, Hayley is drawn into the mag...
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