A review by drewjameson
The Shadows: The Books of Elsewhere: Volume 1 by Jacqueline West

4.0

I really liked this book. Spooky, excellent and pervasive figurative language, classic narrative arc. Imagine if Shirley Jackson rewrote The Haunting of Hill House for early middle schoolers but maintained the sentence-level quality of the writing. If you're into John Bellairs, Neil Gaiman, CS Lewis, check it out. It starts to feel a bit like it's trying too hard to be made into a movie towards the middle, but it gets surprisingly heavy at the climax.