A review by antimony
The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

marinka lives in a house on chicken legs with her grandmother, and is training to be a yaga, a guardian of the Gate that the dead pass through to reach the afterlife. but she doesn't want to be a yaga -- she wants to go down to the world of the living, to stay in one place for more than a couple of weeks, and most importantly, to make friends. but then she does make a friend, and she breaks all of baba's rules, and baba disappears, and it's up to marinka to save her.

this was very fun :) i liked the yagas and i really liked that benjamin is kind of a red herring because you read the dust jacket and think he's the friend it's talking about but actually marinka's friendship with him is completely fine. i wish we'd gotten more baba yaga time and i wish she'd been a bit more menacing but oh well. ALSO i love the cover it reminds me of stop motion animation for some reason. 
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