Rating: 
Summary: Amazing Read!!
Review: This is the first book I've read by Beagle. It won't be the last. This story is like a train, starting off slowly...building...building...continually gaining momentum. It is very well written, so even in the beginning before all the action takes place, you don't want to put it down. Beagle sucks you into Jenny's life, and even though the story is so bazaar, you believe it!
This is a mysterious, almost creepy, story. I hated to put it down, and when I had to, I kept thinking about it! It's easy to read, and with his amazing descriptions and interesting characters and twists, it's a great read for anyone over the age of 10.
I highly recommend it for anyone interested in a mysterious ghost story.
Rating:
Summary: Amazing Read!!
Review: This is the first book I've read by Beagle. It won't be the last. This story is like a train, starting off slowly...building...building...continually gaining momentum. It is very well written, so even in the beginning before all the action takes place, you don't want to put it down. Beagle sucks you into Jenny's life, and even though the story is so bazaar, you believe it!
This is a mysterious, almost creepy, story. I hated to put it down, and when I had to, I kept thinking about it! It's easy to read, and with his amazing descriptions and interesting characters and twists, it's a great read for anyone over the age of 10.
I highly recommend it for anyone interested in a mysterious ghost story.
Rating:
Summary: Stunning More or Less Describes it
Review: Wow. Wow. Just, wow.
This book is really a good one, I'd reccomend it to people definitely 12 or up (though it never would've stopped me). This book reads like it's fast paced, and it's only when you look at the size of the text, etc., that you notice how long it is. It's about the protagonist, Jenny, moving to England, and having to face many things, among them her decidedly sulky attitude (partly because of the 6-month loss of her dear, dear friend, Mister Cat, in quarantine). The other part of it is her house. It is HUGE, set on about a hundred (or, at least seventy) acres, with three floors, huge rooms... a real seventeenth-century 'manor'. But, it has not been cared for in a long time, and it seems to practically resist electricity. Soon Jenny meets Tamsin, a ghost who died when she was twenty and can't remember why she is still stuck on earth. It's really hard to put down.
Amazingly, the character descriptions and personalities are right on target. I could perfectly imagine the way every person would act in a real situation, probably because the atmosphere seems so much like real life.
Five stars and a round of applause for Peter S. Beagle!
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