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A review by liralen
Beswitched by Kate Saunders
3.0
Flora's off to boarding school, which is just about the worst thing she could possibly imagine—until she finds herself in 1935, and present-day boarding school is looking pretty good.
It's a lot of fun. Flora's a horrible toad of a brat at first (okay, not that bad, but it's fun to say), both to her parents as they drop her off at the (contemporary) train station and to her new (1935) friends and classmates. But the more she learns about 1935 and the spell that brought her back in time, the better she understands that she's been called into the past to complete a task, and only then will she be able to go home.
Almost the entire book is spent in 1935, and I admit to a bit of disappointment about that—I'd have loved to see Flora experience the whiplash of going from 1935 boarding school to contemporary boarding school, or (better yet) the 'other Flora' going from contemporary boarding school back to 1935...the latter in particular. What ever became of 'other Flora'? We get only the bare minimum, which is a shame; she sounds like a firecracker.
Delightfully, the romance is left to the bare minimum and limited to secondary/tertiary characters, giving this room to focus on friendship instead.
It's a lot of fun. Flora's a horrible toad of a brat at first (okay, not that bad, but it's fun to say), both to her parents as they drop her off at the (contemporary) train station and to her new (1935) friends and classmates. But the more she learns about 1935 and the spell that brought her back in time, the better she understands that she's been called into the past to complete a task, and only then will she be able to go home.
Almost the entire book is spent in 1935, and I admit to a bit of disappointment about that—I'd have loved to see Flora experience the whiplash of going from 1935 boarding school to contemporary boarding school, or (better yet) the 'other Flora' going from contemporary boarding school back to 1935...the latter in particular. What ever became of 'other Flora'? We get only the bare minimum, which is a shame; she sounds like a firecracker.
Delightfully, the romance is left to the bare minimum and limited to secondary/tertiary characters, giving this room to focus on friendship instead.