Review: A page-turner with a fantastical setting
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 2, 2014
This is a genre I usually don’t read, but I found myself caught up in the story and the writing. It’s a timeless story of good vs evil, set in a fantasy world. What I liked best is D.M. Sears’ imagination and her attention to setting. When the “normal” teenage heroine enters the seemingly magical world of her parents, she first finds herself in a forest of yellow trees, “so soft they looked like they had been touched by sunlight. The leaves looked like elephant ears, and were a pearlescent white that made me want to touch them.” Turns out the trees were not what they appeared, but carried a poisonous toxin. This was one of many surprises in this book. Every scene was like this, with something unexpected, a new plot twist, a new surprise, a new opportunity for disaster or triumph. Needless to say, I’m looking forward to the next in the Ellethny Series!