This is painfully, painfully bad, and as such I only got half way through it. Almost every page has rhetorical questions the characters ask themselves in the author's attempt at super-thinly veiled foreshadowing and suspense building. How many times can one person wonder: will she ever come back?...
Originally I thought this book was for baseball fans in 5th and 6th grade - and it is - but there are so many fantasy elements that the reader needs to be comfortable with that genre as well. Baggott imagines that the curse that kept the Red Sox from winning the World Series for 80+ years was an ...
Burn a Pure and Breathe the Ash . . .When I was a teenager I uncovered a photo album in my grandparent’s house, tucked into the back of a cabinet, dusty and long neglected under stacks of hoarded papers. The album was full of pictures taken in Japan, where my grandfather had been stationed after ...