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A review by whiteraven191
The Floating Island by Elizabeth Haydon, Brett Helquist
4.0
Actual Rating: 3.75 rounded up to 4 stars
This book had a fun setting and some neat characters. The mystery of the haunted inn was quite entertaining (which makes it weird that it's not mentioned in the synopsis at all). I'm also always a sucker for novels that include illustrations, especially when those illustrations are by the guy who worked on A Series of Unfortunate Events. My one complaint was the framing device of the novel. It seems like the whole book was supposed to be an account from the main character's journal. However, most of the time, the book was written in standard third-person narration. Every once and a while we'd get a short excerpt from the journal, but usually it just ended up feeling intrusive and distracting. It wasn't enough of a problem for me to drop this to three stars, but it definitely could've been handled better.
This book had a fun setting and some neat characters. The mystery of the haunted inn was quite entertaining (which makes it weird that it's not mentioned in the synopsis at all). I'm also always a sucker for novels that include illustrations, especially when those illustrations are by the guy who worked on A Series of Unfortunate Events. My one complaint was the framing device of the novel. It seems like the whole book was supposed to be an account from the main character's journal. However, most of the time, the book was written in standard third-person narration. Every once and a while we'd get a short excerpt from the journal, but usually it just ended up feeling intrusive and distracting. It wasn't enough of a problem for me to drop this to three stars, but it definitely could've been handled better.