Review: Maggie Rising to The Top
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 15, 2013
Since it's rare for me to give a book a full five stars, because few books are absolutely perfect I wish there were the option to give 4 and a half stars. That said, in Maggie Rising, Susan Aylworth has written a totally charming, seriously involving novel where disaster after disaster follows her main protagonist, seventeen-year-old Maggie (Evening Star) Rising after she takes pity on a murder victim whose ghost comes to her for help. Maggie, with the assistance of Lauren, the victim, can provide the police with information that should lead them to the killer--only it leads them, instead, to Maggie herself.What is a young woman to do when she knows the truth but is incapable of proving it, mainly because no one will believe her? As, of course, how can they? I mean, who believes in ghosts? Certainly not law enforcement officers, or lawyers, or even her parents.This breezily written story captured me from the first page and kept me reading eagerly to the very last to see what would happen, how the various, clearly delineated characters managed to sort themselves out and show their true colors.This is the first in a series, and I eagerly await the others. Susan Aylworth is an author whose books, billed as Young Adult, will appeal to audiences of all ages.