Review: Great YA
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 15, 2014
This is a wonderful young adult/teen story! The innocence and purity of this whole story was just such an amazing change of pace from the distressed YA books of late. Roxy May is a well thought out character and she has a subtle power and confidence in her while still maintaining the usual insecurities and vulnerabilities of a growing teenager in high school. Small warning, it is written in UK English which I did stumble on the odd spellings and words at times but knowing this going into it ensured it did not interrupt my reading experience at all. I ended up staying up way too late to finish the story. There is a main mystery and then a couple little side things to occupy Roxy. She also faces the idea that a boy may like her! As I was going to go the next book in the series, my 8 year old asked me to read it. I am reading it again with her, simply due to the different language, and I'm enjoying it the second time around just as much. I can't recommend this book enough and find it would be appropriate for 12 year olds and up.