This was a rather bizarre novel - not quite sure what I was expecting, but not quite this! I liked the philosophy/moral behind it - the danger of trying to get kids to all conform to some norm. The Cavendish Home is a horrible place where weird kids are magicked away to be made normal. From the s...
A story with a stubborn, clever, and mildly disagreeable heroine, this book went to weird and kind of dark places for a children's book. And I LOVED IT! Victoria is a clever child who has zero tolerance for nonsense and competitively seeks to be the best in everything. Then one day, kids in her ...
I would have given this a 3.5 rating.I really wanted to like this book, and I did enjoy it up until the point where Victoria became a member of the Cavendish Home. I'm not sure what happened at that point to make me lose interest, except that it went from mysterious and spooky to kind of macabre....