Review: Like a fairytale from days of old!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2014
This has a fabulous feeling of fantasy. As I started reading I felt like I was reading a fairytale, something that I would want to share with my daughter and nieces. As the story progresses I started wondering when the crap was going to hit the fan! So much is in this that I wasn’t sure what to be scared of exactly, but I knew from the ominous feeling that something was going to happen, and it does! Ohhh it does!Sam, the main character, has inherited her father’s clock shop. But unlike her father she is full of ambition. She can see where she wants to take the company, just not how. Then she meets Piv. She goes from not believing in fairies to believing but it definitely wasn’t an immediate thing. She even tries to shoot the poor little guy! But as we learn more about him and his little friends we find out that he’s an elf and that’s where the story really starts!The plot was fabulous. I really enjoyed the growth, or even lack of growth, of the characters and where they went. I really was getting into the book and it’s at right around halfway when that ominous feeling starts to show it’s ugly face but then it wasn’t it feeling! Stuff starts happening and Sam can’t keep control of everything around her. It’s just crazy!Much like the older fairy tales where they didn’t necessarily have a good ending, and where you’re not sure if the heroine is going to come out on top, this book is exactly like that. I was waiting with bated breath to see what was going to happen and didn’t get many answers until nearly the end.And it was the way that Ramsey doesn’t spoon feed the information but made Sam work for it that I liked as well. We’ve all heard stories about elves but you never know which ones are true so Sam had to find her own way through the mess.Absolutely brilliant writing. Just a few wordy spots that I wanted to skim through to get to the meat of the story but nothing that would detract from a great book.4.5 / 5