Mesmerizing fascinating dark and beautiful filled with allusions…

Mesmerizing, fascinating, dark and beautiful — filled with allusions, illusions, and the skillful distillation of language, book 102 is definitely one customized for me! Alas, I don’t feel that it is written with any normal children in mind — the allusions to the historical setting and the characters’ life experiences will be puzzling and quite frustrating for most child readers. I had to put it down and move on to some other titles! But, it will probably be the first book I get back to finish at the beginning of February!