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A good mystery. Not a complete favorite, but a very good read.
Amazing series! The suspense is awful, the plot twists, and the excellently written characters.... I love it all! I just wish that Katniss wasn't so indecisive with her love life. For pete's sake, choose a man and love him already.
I liked this book even better than the first one! There was a lot more intrigue and mystery, and fewer fighting scenes. The Japanese-style world and the mythic creatures give the story a charm all its own.
I adore the main character, Balsa, because she is ornery and crotchety and suspicious, but with a generous and compassionate heart. A wonderfully complex character that grows even more in this second book!
The plot is twisting and intense with plenty of surprises. Love it so much!
I adore the main character, Balsa, because she is ornery and crotchety and suspicious, but with a generous and compassionate heart. A wonderfully complex character that grows even more in this second book!
The plot is twisting and intense with plenty of surprises. Love it so much!
Full of meaning, darkness and light, horror and love.
A heavy read, but quite good.
A heavy read, but quite good.
I just adore every Aunt Dimity book I read! Not great literature, but so much fluffy fun. The mystery in this one really had me wondering, and I loved seeing more of Kit, since he is one of my fave characters from this series.
FYI: There are no real vampires in this book.
FYI: There are no real vampires in this book.
I really enjoyed reading this classic little story about four siblings who go camping in the fells (mountains).
Pat and Jan are the two brothers, and I liked how they can be tough, rough and tumble, but also very protective and gentle with their sisters, Hyacinth and Kay. The siblings make a great team, and they go hiking all over the mountains, making camp near a farmhouse, where the farmer and his wife give them their meals.
I think this is the third book in the Fell Farm series, but you can easily read it as a stand-alone.
The adventures the siblings have are everyday things but charming and interesting. They set up the details of their camp site, and take their first hike up the trails. A killer wild dog is loose among the sheep and they join the hunt to track it down. Two rude boys from the city make trouble for the siblings. They hike up to the top of the mountains where there is still snow and must find their way back down. Jan is the bird-watcher of the group, and he drags Hyacinth on an adventure on the tarn (lake) looking for a tawny owl. After days of rain, the camp tents are nearly flooded out, and the children have to find dry ground.
Lots of little adventures for the gang to show their mettle and have their fun!
This book reminded me a little bit of Little House on the Prairie, since it's all about the details of survival in the outdoors. The style and feeling of the writing is similar too.
Altogether a delightful book, and I would love to read the rest of the series!
Pat and Jan are the two brothers, and I liked how they can be tough, rough and tumble, but also very protective and gentle with their sisters, Hyacinth and Kay. The siblings make a great team, and they go hiking all over the mountains, making camp near a farmhouse, where the farmer and his wife give them their meals.
I think this is the third book in the Fell Farm series, but you can easily read it as a stand-alone.
The adventures the siblings have are everyday things but charming and interesting. They set up the details of their camp site, and take their first hike up the trails. A killer wild dog is loose among the sheep and they join the hunt to track it down. Two rude boys from the city make trouble for the siblings. They hike up to the top of the mountains where there is still snow and must find their way back down. Jan is the bird-watcher of the group, and he drags Hyacinth on an adventure on the tarn (lake) looking for a tawny owl. After days of rain, the camp tents are nearly flooded out, and the children have to find dry ground.
Lots of little adventures for the gang to show their mettle and have their fun!
This book reminded me a little bit of Little House on the Prairie, since it's all about the details of survival in the outdoors. The style and feeling of the writing is similar too.
Altogether a delightful book, and I would love to read the rest of the series!
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The characters didn't really draw me in until about the 3rd chapter. Too much of the reading is descriptions of the locals, the castes, the dress, the customs, the food, etc... providing excellent color and firmly planting the imagination within Kipling's India. But still... I wished the plot would get a move on, instead of wasting time describing characters we never see again. (Much like Dickens in that respect.)
However, by the 3rd chapter, the action began to outweigh the descriptions, and our characters gained a little depth. The rest of the book was fabulous. Excellent writing, of course. The suspense and poignancy of each little move forward in the life of Kim was perfectly timed.
I loved it!
Some of the dialogue was oddly spoken or disconnected, but I chalked it up to Indian forms of speech being translated, or some kind of British-Indian slang. Or it may just have been the fault of the culture, the era, and the expanse of years and experience that separate me from Kipling and his glorious India.
However, by the 3rd chapter, the action began to outweigh the descriptions, and our characters gained a little depth. The rest of the book was fabulous. Excellent writing, of course. The suspense and poignancy of each little move forward in the life of Kim was perfectly timed.
I loved it!
Some of the dialogue was oddly spoken or disconnected, but I chalked it up to Indian forms of speech being translated, or some kind of British-Indian slang. Or it may just have been the fault of the culture, the era, and the expanse of years and experience that separate me from Kipling and his glorious India.
