by Marcus Sedgwick
the cover looked great. the summary interesting. the actual pages were words thrown together between covers. the characters flat n unrelatable. the story scattered n flimsy. not impressed
With its creepy cover and synopsis, I was sure White Crow would be the perfect read for my creepy loving taste. When creepy turned to odd, and by odd I mean barf-on-some-pages-and-call-it-a-book odd, I knew I was wrong. *sigh*A very spooky setting, White Crow lands us inside an eerie little town tha...
This book was weird. There are three different POVs which didn't go together at all. Rebecca was a whinny baby, always complaining and everything was "me me me". I was like Shut up already. Ferelith was a wacko. She was really weird. I was hovering between liking her and not. The priest was just as ...
Creepy and well-written, but not something I exactly enjoyed. [Nov. 2011]
While reading it I was impatient to find out how these different voices would fit together, and to have the horror unveiled. Once I'd finished it, I appreciated it more, because it does all fit together well, and the suspense was killing me. A good, creepy read for October. And I quite like the name...
Rebecca and her father have come to Winterfold, a small English town that is slowly falling over the cliff's edge and into the ocean. They were looking to escape, but Winterfold isn't exactly the right place to visit to get away from every day horrors, and a strange, cruel girl named Ferelith befri...
Thought it was a bit confusing and didn't see the point. Shall re-read for the carnegie award though.
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