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A review by wrentheblurry
Winterling by Sarah Prineas
3.0
This was the latest bed-time story for my boys, 13 and 11. I would give it 2.5 stars, the older 3, and the younger would do 3.5. Thus, I averaged my final score out to 3.
Girl stumbles into a forbidden fantasy world. Girl encounters trouble, a boy/dog, and lots of other creatures and beings. Girl tries to fix the problems in the fantasy world, while issues are cropping up in the real world.
The story feels like it pulls elements from many other fantasy books, but I am okay with that. What more annoyed me was the extensive use of the adjective 'rough' (or adverb 'roughly') in way too many of the descriptions of Rook. I also grew weary of the long, dull descriptions of nature. I like being able to get a strong sense of my surroundings, though this felt like it went overboard.
I would've quit the book earlier on, but my sons both wanted to continue. The younger liked the subject matter, but thought "the writing could be better." In the end, I was glad to have finished reading it, but also happy to move on to something else.
Girl stumbles into a forbidden fantasy world. Girl encounters trouble, a boy/dog, and lots of other creatures and beings. Girl tries to fix the problems in the fantasy world, while issues are cropping up in the real world.
The story feels like it pulls elements from many other fantasy books, but I am okay with that. What more annoyed me was the extensive use of the adjective 'rough' (or adverb 'roughly') in way too many of the descriptions of Rook. I also grew weary of the long, dull descriptions of nature. I like being able to get a strong sense of my surroundings, though this felt like it went overboard.
I would've quit the book earlier on, but my sons both wanted to continue. The younger liked the subject matter, but thought "the writing could be better." In the end, I was glad to have finished reading it, but also happy to move on to something else.