My Review:
This book was my pick for My TBR List feature.
I was rather excited to get into this book, the synopsis was really interesting and I was looking forward to a good middle grade book with a scary story, however that is not what I got. Now don’t get me wrong I actually enjoyed this book. I loved the main character Abigail and I really felt bad for her but she was suppose to be a 16 year old girl but I felt more like she was 10. Most of the girls in the orphanage seemed a lot younger than they were suppose to be. Abigail’s twins sister Tabitha I wasn’t very fond of at all, she was spoiled whiny and I thought she was very mean to her sister and how she treated her. Abigail was an orphan because her aunt picked Tabitha to live with her and didn’t take both girls however Tabitha thought nothing wrong with this, I understand they were young but that just seems mean to me. I really like all the kids in the books but unless they are going to explain in the next book it kind of left them up in the air. I really would like to know what happens to them.
The Bagman was suppose to be this scary guy who feed off the fears of the kids but I wasn’t getting scary from him. He seemed rather confused or conflicted which kind of left me not really having a connection with him, not sure I was suppose to or not but he just wasn’t the bad guy I was hoping for. I still was rather confused about what he really was suppose to be for. Like why was he there?
The story was ok, quick moving it progressed nicely however some parts didn’t need to be there or just left me kind of like what was the point of this but I did like it.
I would be willing to read the next one in this series just to see if it wraps up a lot of loose ends. I started with a pretty good 4 but as the story progressed I kind of felt things started to fall apart and seemed unresolved so I knocked it down a half. This was a decent read with some interesting characters and a quick moving story, totally would give it a shot and I think I might try the second one sooner rather than later just to see if it helps the unresolved parts of the story.
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Hmmm I think I’ll wait to see if you get any of those unresolved yarns wrapped up, because I find it really frustrating to read a book and not know what the point is. I’m glad you enjoyed it for the most part though.
I hope so too otherwise the book doesn’t make sense lol I hope it give some kind of answers in the next book.
One of my pet hates is characters who sound younger than they are and there is big difference between 10 and nearly 16! And disappointing that it’s not scary, as the Coraline reference would make think otherwise. But glad you liked it enough to consider continuing,
Aww, I’m sorry this didn’t turn out to be all you’d hoped, Michelle. I don’t like it when the characters are supposed to be a certain age and yet act younger. That really causes a disconnect for me. And it’s really disappointing that the scary part didn’t deliver. Better luck next month!
It was really distracting because I kept having to remind myself she was 16. I did like it, maybe the next one will be better 😉
I am sorry to hear it wasn’t as scary as you expected, but it’s nice you still enjoyed the book :). The cover says it’s a trilogy, so let’s hope they wrap up the open ends inthe next books.
me too because I felt like a lot was missing. I hope to get to the next one at some point this year. It really had some good characters.
I’m glad you liked it but to bad it wasn’t as scary as you hoped for a MG book.
Maybe it would be scary for younger kids but for me it wasn’t however it was pretty good 🙂