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A review by haygurlhay
Shadow Hand by Anne Elisabeth Stengl
2.0
Before I get booed for giving this book a # star rating, let me explain...
I was that kid who spent all day every day reading fantasy books. I'm talking about the 'daughters of the forest/you have supernatural powers/medival kingdoms' type books. (FYI my favorite book to THIS DAY is 'Two Princesses of Bamarre'. Go look that up.)
And maybe it's because this was the first book of the Goldstone Wood tales I read (who wants to start on book number 1 when you can jump to 6!?! Duh), but I was highly annoyed by both the main characters. Actually...all of them. Save Nidwadi (sp) and the Baroness Middlecrescent. They were both hilarious. I've always been a big fan of a young unknowing person having a big/supernatural destiny in their future and the struggle to accept that and live up to said destiny, but holy hell...Foxbrush and Daylily were just doing the most.
I dunno. Maybe it just wasn't my cup of tea...
I was that kid who spent all day every day reading fantasy books. I'm talking about the 'daughters of the forest/you have supernatural powers/medival kingdoms' type books. (FYI my favorite book to THIS DAY is 'Two Princesses of Bamarre'. Go look that up.)
And maybe it's because this was the first book of the Goldstone Wood tales I read (who wants to start on book number 1 when you can jump to 6!?! Duh), but I was highly annoyed by both the main characters. Actually...all of them. Save Nidwadi (sp) and the Baroness Middlecrescent. They were both hilarious. I've always been a big fan of a young unknowing person having a big/supernatural destiny in their future and the struggle to accept that and live up to said destiny, but holy hell...Foxbrush and Daylily were just doing the most.
I dunno. Maybe it just wasn't my cup of tea...