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emilygarner 's review for:
Florence and Giles
by John Harding
S p o o k y!
Goodness me this book is seriously spooky in a really dark way. Not your typical ghost story, but it felt very ghost-like to me. Reminiscent of Hansel and Gretel, Florence and Giles are two children who have been left under the care of their new governess who seems to groom Giles into her ghastly clutches. Florence’s world is tornadoed and she finds herself second-placed. (I can do it too, Mr Harding.)
To those who haven’t read this book yet, I’m not just making up words for the heck of it. Florence has been banned from reading by her uncle but finds respite hidden away in her library while teaching herself how to read and write. Her vocabulary is lovely and very refreshing to read. It mixes her childish way of speaking with the very adult way that she thinks and acts. It works very well together.
I loved the ending. But that being said, I loved the beginning and the middle too. A really good book. I just wanted a little bit more evil to come from the governess. I kind of saw her like a misunderstood aunt as opposed to some nature of pure evil.
Utterly different from The Girl Who Couldn’t Read, but still linked. You don’t have to have read this to read TGWCR.
Goodness me this book is seriously spooky in a really dark way. Not your typical ghost story, but it felt very ghost-like to me. Reminiscent of Hansel and Gretel, Florence and Giles are two children who have been left under the care of their new governess who seems to groom Giles into her ghastly clutches. Florence’s world is tornadoed and she finds herself second-placed. (I can do it too, Mr Harding.)
To those who haven’t read this book yet, I’m not just making up words for the heck of it. Florence has been banned from reading by her uncle but finds respite hidden away in her library while teaching herself how to read and write. Her vocabulary is lovely and very refreshing to read. It mixes her childish way of speaking with the very adult way that she thinks and acts. It works very well together.
I loved the ending. But that being said, I loved the beginning and the middle too. A really good book. I just wanted a little bit more evil to come from the governess. I kind of saw her like a misunderstood aunt as opposed to some nature of pure evil.
Utterly different from The Girl Who Couldn’t Read, but still linked. You don’t have to have read this to read TGWCR.