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A review by thereaderdragon
Withering-By-Sea by Judith Rossell
4.0
In the Hotel Majestic, high above the town of Withering-by-Sea, Stella Montgomery leads a miserable life with her three horrid aunts: Condolence, Temperance, and Deliverence.
When she should be spending her days learning pianoforte and French Conversation for Young Ladies, Stella prefers to be exploring or reading from her most prized possession - an old battered atlas of the world, and so she often finds herself in trouble with her aunts. But no amount of trouble compares to that which she finds herself in on the night that thieves break into the hotel. And it turns out that they're looking for something that she's taken...
But the trouble doesn't end there. It turns out that the aunts have been hiding something from Stella. Something about exactly who - or what - she is.
Withering-by-Sea is a light fantasy about a young girl who finds herself in a whole world of trouble as a result of her boundless curiousity.
Knowing this novel was going to be filled with mystery, I was expecting it to have a bit of a detective-y Nancy Drew feel to it. It turns out it's not that sort of mystery at all. And I ain't even mad.
This was a really fun read filled with adventure, magic, and friendship, and I often had trouble putting it down. It was exactly the sort of book I needed to help me unwind after the stressful Christmas rush at work.
If you enjoyed A Series of Unfortunate Events, I feel you might get a bit of a kick out of this one.
When she should be spending her days learning pianoforte and French Conversation for Young Ladies, Stella prefers to be exploring or reading from her most prized possession - an old battered atlas of the world, and so she often finds herself in trouble with her aunts. But no amount of trouble compares to that which she finds herself in on the night that thieves break into the hotel. And it turns out that they're looking for something that she's taken...
But the trouble doesn't end there. It turns out that the aunts have been hiding something from Stella. Something about exactly who - or what - she is.
Withering-by-Sea is a light fantasy about a young girl who finds herself in a whole world of trouble as a result of her boundless curiousity.
Knowing this novel was going to be filled with mystery, I was expecting it to have a bit of a detective-y Nancy Drew feel to it. It turns out it's not that sort of mystery at all. And I ain't even mad.
This was a really fun read filled with adventure, magic, and friendship, and I often had trouble putting it down. It was exactly the sort of book I needed to help me unwind after the stressful Christmas rush at work.
If you enjoyed A Series of Unfortunate Events, I feel you might get a bit of a kick out of this one.