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Circle Of Secrets (2011)

by Kimberley Griffiths Little(Favorite Author)

4.24 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

054516561X (ISBN13: 9780545165617)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Scholastic Press

review 1: My 9yo read this a while ago and every once in a while, she'll suggest I read something she really liked. So I stuck it on my shelf and forgot about it. The other day, I was trying to reduce my to-read shelf and saw this so I picked it up. I didn't much care for the super country way of speaking. Maybe because while I'm not from Louisiana, I am from Georgia and while people always portray Southerners as speaking that way, I don't know anyone who really does, excepting the profuse use of "y'all" (which they didn't seem to use in this book much) and the occasional use of "ain't." However, once I got over that, I enjoyed this one. It's a nice little juvenile book that was interesting enough to keep me reading.
review 2: The ghost too obvious. Yes, the reade... morers are given more clues than the main character, but then it takes her forever to figure it out. There was no reason the character and reader shouldn't figure out the mystery at the same time.I didn't care for the style either. I didn't mind the southern dialect, but it had too many fragments. Fragments fit with the fractured thoughts of a confused girl, but they were used so often that the novel felt sloppy rather than artistic.I did like the portrayal of the mother-daughter relationship, though. It was filled with all the hurt and confusion and miscommunications you would expect from a daughter whose mother walked out on the family. But then that conflict was wrapped up too quickly. less

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