A review by shane_tiernan
The Heaven Tree by Edith Pargeter

4.0

When I started this I was worried it was going to be more of a young adult novel, but fortunately the scope changed about one fifth of the way in. This really wasn't a story about ideas, it was all about the characters. Usually that doesn't do it for me, but the medieval setting helped keep it interesting. There was a lot of tension in the first section and then a large part of the middle seemed to kind of lag because it was just pushing the story along. Then the last 3rd of the book went back to leaving you wondering if the characters you had grown to love were going to be okay or not. The ending was rather abrupt, but still pretty exciting.

This really seems like it would make a great movie.

While the first book is a story that stands alone well, I am definitely tempted to read the next two books in the series.