The Ellingham Academy has a dark and famous history. In 1936 Iris Ellingham and her daughter, Alice, were kidnapped. Albert Ellingham, a man so rich he can start a free private school in the hills of Vermont, tries to pay the ransom to have them returned, but to no avail. One clue to the crime is a mocking riddle received days before they disappeared, and signed ‘Truly, Devious’. Cut to the present day and the school is still open and accepting students. One of those […]
“This entire exercise was stupid.” Never truer words spoken
17 year old Ginny receives a package of envelopes from her estranged Aunt Peg, the first letter instructing her to get on a plane to London and to not read any of the other letters until she has completed the task set in the previous one. Peg has set up an account for her that will (supposedly) cover all the crazy antics she has planned for her niece over the summer. In London, Ginny stays with Peg’s friend Richard, befriends an artist called Keith, and […]
1 great story + 2 decent ones
This book is basically the winter equivalent of a summer beach read, so what would that be? A ski trip hot tub read? It definitely requires a cup of hot cocoa. “Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really.” Let Is Snow is made up of three stories, each written by a YA author and each linked in a general way — some characters overlap, and they all take place in roughly the same town. The first story (the […]
So Disappointing
I had such high hopes for this sequel after having so much fun reading the first book in the Shades of London series, but I can’t pretend this was anything other than a massive disappointment. Everything I loved about the first book (the coherent plot, fun cast of characters, Rory’s personality, great setting) was absent from The Madness Underneath. I wish I had stopped reading after the first book. In The Madness Underneath, Rory is recovering from the events of the first book under her […]