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A review by smitchy
Wormwood Mire by Judith Rossell
3.0
The second book in the Stella Montgomery series by Aussie author Judith Rossell is slow to start. Very slow. It wouldn't surprise me if a few readers didn't make it through this one. It isn't even bad writing there is just too much description of Stella's new surroundings without much action at all for the first 1/3 of the book.
Having said that, for those who do manage to make it to the half-way point the action picks up and it manages to get off to a rollicking fast paced finish.
After her adventures in Withering-by-the Sea, Stella has been packed off by her disapproving Aunts to stay with the children of the Aunt's cousin. The unfortunately named Strideforth and Hortense have been sent to England to be prepared for boarding school. Living in the property recently inherited by their father their only companions are Miss Araminter: a botany obsessed governess; a grumpy housekeeper and her husband, and their grandson Jem.
All is not as it seems in the big house and soon there is talk of a monster in the forest, ghosts and witches. When the travelling Dentist, Mr Flint, comes to town with his sideshow he becomes obsessed with capturing the monster of Wormwood Mire. The children must outwit him if they are going to solve the mystery of the old house and help Stella find out a secret from her past!
Having said that, for those who do manage to make it to the half-way point the action picks up and it manages to get off to a rollicking fast paced finish.
After her adventures in Withering-by-the Sea, Stella has been packed off by her disapproving Aunts to stay with the children of the Aunt's cousin. The unfortunately named Strideforth and Hortense have been sent to England to be prepared for boarding school. Living in the property recently inherited by their father their only companions are Miss Araminter: a botany obsessed governess; a grumpy housekeeper and her husband, and their grandson Jem.
All is not as it seems in the big house and soon there is talk of a monster in the forest, ghosts and witches. When the travelling Dentist, Mr Flint, comes to town with his sideshow he becomes obsessed with capturing the monster of Wormwood Mire. The children must outwit him if they are going to solve the mystery of the old house and help Stella find out a secret from her past!