Reviewed by alindstadtcorbeax on
Holy freakin’ MOLY! This was absolutely incredible. I’m dumbfounded.
A middle grade book has to be truly special to keep my attention. I’ve had kind of bad luck with them lately. This had my undivided, complete attention, all the way through. More than that, I was enchanted.
Jessica Townsend you are a genius. I haven’t read something so magical in so long!
Amazing, brilliant ending.
Amazing, brilliant world building.
Amazing, brilliant character development!
I LOVE MORRIGAN CROW!
She is a BRILLIANT, heart warming, firecracker of a girl that you can’t help but fall in love with. She starts out knowing exactly “who she is-” one of the cursed children that cause bad things to happen to certain people in her vicinity. She also knows that she will die at midnight on the last day of Eventide, as all cursed children do. She gets blamed for the most ridiculous things, and must apologize constantly, which she often does with sharp wit that is barely noticeable- I love her!
That is, until a mysterious man, named Jupiter North, whisks her away to escape certain death, & brings her back to a place called Nevermoor. If she wishes to stay there, she must compete in 3 trials & pass each to become part of the Wundrous Society.
When she is brought to Nevermoor and told that she, is, in fact, NOT cursed... she loses her identity for she has NO clue who she actually is, now that’s she’s being told she isn’t cursed. She finds her true self within each new trial and every day at the Hotel Deucalion, and with her new friend, Hawthorne (the very first friend she’s ever had. He rides dragons. Sounds like a cool BFF to me
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 10 September, 2019: Finished reading
- 10 September, 2019: Reviewed