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Three stars are the best this volume is going to do, if Maud Montomgery doesn't ruin anything else. What a pity, after loving it highly for chapters and chapters of the beautiful first half of it.

Three stars are the best this volume is going to do, if Maud Montomgery doesn't ruin anything else. What a pity, after loving it highly for chapters and chapters of the beautiful first half of it.

I miss our parents and wish them a blissful first Christmas together in Heaven. To my friends, my remaining family, and me: Merry Christmas! With love and grace, Carolyn. 🐈🐈‍⬛🐂🦌🐕🐦

I miss our parents and wish them a blissful first Christmas together in Heaven. To my friends, my remaining family, and me: Happy Christmas Eve! With love and grace, Carolyn. 🐈🐈‍⬛🐂🦌🐕🐦

Reading with my friends over Christmas is a treasure. I will type my impressions and favourite quotations after our landline is restored and returns access to our PC keyboard internet.

Marvellous!

Kerri and Leeanee, I must conserve internet data. Please e-mail and post, even if I don't join in visibly for awhile. Love, Carolyn.

This is marvellous! Billy Crystal's fans will get this reference.

This is wonderful!

I am going to make a rule to confirm that there is no "present tense" narration ever again in anything I read. It is so annoying; do authors not get how jarring and unrealistic it is? Gack, how did I stumble onto so many authors using this fucking bizarre tense in books I was interested in? Authors, don't do it anymore! Storytelling can be from any first, second, or third perspective but has to be in past tense!

I hate the writing style: first person singular, "towards" without an S, used way too often instead of just "TO", annoyingly adding "at" with verbs instead if just saying "WIPED" her mouth. I hate the protagonist. I get that she is supposed to open up to life again, learn that magic is real, experience ghosts, and find romance. Could we please not hate the bland, mathematical, bitterly divorced cliché until then?

We are starting with a cookie cutter character whom I hope rapidly changes. Also, please spell "towards" with an "S" and write in first person, past! No one likes present narration. It is weird and does not feel like storytelling.

The notable error in a reading family is to think a used bookstore needs "bestsellers". Yikes, used shops are where we count on finding everything else. New shops only sell big names!

This is marvellous.

Wonderful!

Here we go: Kerri, Shirin, and Carolyn - me! :) May we ride high through a mystery of forests, lakes, caverns, fields, and skies!