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gbaty's review
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.0
mollyringle's review
3.0
"Strange" comes to mind as the word for this. Confusing sometimes. Pace was too slow in parts, and too quick in other parts. So those are the flaws. But the up side is the Irishness of it all: dialect, scenery, history, and best of all, mythology. It was a good crash course in Irish/Celtic myths for me, as I knew very little about them before.
shelleyanderson4127's review
3.0
I enjoy the modern take on old fairy tales. And while I don't think Scarborough writes a very convincing teenageed narrator, there is actually quite a lot of irish mythology and history in this book. Enjoyable genre fiction.
nwhyte's review
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1921297.html
the second of a three-part YA series about a sassy American girl from Seattle who is in training to become a fairy godmother, and is sent to a mid-1990s Ireland for a learning experience involving legendary figures plucked both from the more respectable sources of lore and from Yeats and placed in the gritty tail end of the twntieth century. Scarborough's handling of Northern Ireland is not terribly adept and her geography elsewhere but she is clearly trying hard with the Dublin and Wicklow settings, and her attempts at dialect are not too excruciating. Not a particularly challenging book, but not too objectionable either.
the second of a three-part YA series about a sassy American girl from Seattle who is in training to become a fairy godmother, and is sent to a mid-1990s Ireland for a learning experience involving legendary figures plucked both from the more respectable sources of lore and from Yeats and placed in the gritty tail end of the twntieth century. Scarborough's handling of Northern Ireland is not terribly adept and her geography elsewhere but she is clearly trying hard with the Dublin and Wicklow settings, and her attempts at dialect are not too excruciating. Not a particularly challenging book, but not too objectionable either.
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