false <![CDATA[Four and Twenty Blackbirds]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174368220m/389099.jpg 389099 5 Although she was orphaned at birth, Eden Moore is never alone. Three dead women watch from the shadows, bound to protect her from harm. But in the woods a gunman waits, convinced that Eden is destined to follow her wicked great-grandfatheran African magician with the power to curse the living and raise the dead. Now Eden must decipher the secret of the ghostly trio before a new enemy more dangerous than the fanatical assassin destroys what is left of her family. She will sift through lies in a Georgian antebellum mansion and climb through the haunted ruins of a nineteenth century hospital, desperately seeking the truth that will save her beloved aunt from the curse that threatens her life. 378717 2003 Four and Twenty Blackbirds total:302|5:55|4:124|3:87|2:31|1:5| 302 1099 487 69 4 3 false false Thu Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 22:46:09 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 09:15:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed May 28 13:39:07 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 13:39:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 07:11:27 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 07:19:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Jul 30 20:30:05 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 16:48:46 -0700 2008
Plus, this book has a very specific audience, in my opinion: high school junior girls who don't yet read much (i.e. just graduated from Young Adult fiction and need an intermediate step before trying adult lite...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 11:44:25 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 11:45:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Mon Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 23:53:08 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 23:54:35 -0700 2008
I'm sure it was a perfectly good Gothic! It's just that said genre is entirely too rich for my blood, and I ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Dec 28 13:45:49 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 13:46:25 -0800 2008
This book nicely engaged me for the first third (great atmosphere, so...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Dec 24 05:19:03 -0800 2008 Tue Sep 01 14:09:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 11 15:43:43 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 15:45:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 13:57:30 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 13:57:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 13:55:55 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 14:12:25 -0700 2008
Setting: Lots of good description of the surroundings and people. Made it easy to picture it in my mind.

Plot: Fairly straight-forward, with n...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 16:07:21 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 16:19:13 -0700 2008
It was...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 10 17:58:22 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 06:51:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Dec 12 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Feb 12 08:35:56 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 08:35:56 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 26 22:50:35 -0700 2007 Tue Jan 13 22:20:46 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 30 20:47:52 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 20:48:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 16:39:15 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 21:16:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 15:23:12 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 15:13:12 -0700 2009 Cherie Priest has rapidly ascended the heap of my favorite authors, I finally got my hands on a copy of the first of her most well-known books, the trilogy of tales about Eden Moore. It's certainly different, in its ways, from the historically-set tales I'm used to reading from her, but it's no ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 19:25:15 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 19:27:00 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Oct 21 15:27:31 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 12 12:22:12 -0800 2007
In searching for information about her teenaged mother who died in an institution during childbirth, Eden finds out more about her family history than she ever expected. With a mixed-rac...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=389099