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nxtapipedream 's review for:
Spellbook of the Lost and Found
by Moïra Fowley-Doyle
Actual rating: 3.5
It took me awhile to get into this book when I started it. I picked this book up as an audiobook, and honestly I think that might've been a mistake. It wasn't an issue of narrator, I happened to enjoy all the separate narrators for the different points of view. But I had a hard time getting all the characters straight, and I think being able to read the words physically on a page would've helped that. Each main character is named after a type of tree or another plant found in nature (there's Ivy, Hazel, Rowan, Olive, Rose, Ash, Laurel and Holly). While listening to the audiobook they all kind of got jumbled together and I'd have to pause and regroup to figure out who was connected to who.
But there's this plot twist about 3/4 of the way through and OH MY GOD it rocked my world. I loved it so much. I really enjoy magical realism and Moira Fowley-Doyle did it extremely well in this book, and now I'm interested to pick up her other book (which I believe is also magical realism, but I could be wrong). The cast of characters is diverse and fun to read about and overall I really enjoyed this story, and I do recommend it, just maybe not the audiobook.
It took me awhile to get into this book when I started it. I picked this book up as an audiobook, and honestly I think that might've been a mistake. It wasn't an issue of narrator, I happened to enjoy all the separate narrators for the different points of view. But I had a hard time getting all the characters straight, and I think being able to read the words physically on a page would've helped that. Each main character is named after a type of tree or another plant found in nature (there's Ivy, Hazel, Rowan, Olive, Rose, Ash, Laurel and Holly). While listening to the audiobook they all kind of got jumbled together and I'd have to pause and regroup to figure out who was connected to who.
But there's this plot twist about 3/4 of the way through and OH MY GOD it rocked my world. I loved it so much. I really enjoy magical realism and Moira Fowley-Doyle did it extremely well in this book, and now I'm interested to pick up her other book (which I believe is also magical realism, but I could be wrong). The cast of characters is diverse and fun to read about and overall I really enjoyed this story, and I do recommend it, just maybe not the audiobook.