What People Say About the Strange Series
Denise Raymond
Grace Lowrie
Suzanne West
Anne Thomas-Davis
Miriam Smith
Ashrae
OHMIDAYS! OHMIDAYS! What a book! I have laughed out loud, I have wept with sorrow and run the gamut of every emotion between. I love Stella, weirdly wonderful Stella and her marvellous, accepting family. The book is so clever and Stella is so believable that at one stage I found myself thinking, "maybe, if I just let go, I could fly". It genuinely felt like I was reading her diary. I want Stella to be my friend, I want her parents to come over for dinner. The Peacock sisters and Glory are heart-warming and so lovable, and as for Ed, adore him! The paradoxically named Miss Merry and the dreaded doctor are so vile and villainous that I was in awe of the will power of Stella and her friends not to do something unimaginable to them. What a fabulous book! 5 happy, bubbly stars.
A delightful book with beautifully and evocatively drawn characters. An incredible eye for detail and wry sense of humour kept a smile on my face for every page – until she dropped her bombshell! Suddenly it was no longer a gentle humorous saunter through childhood but a chilling, violent, situation which develops into a gripping plot.
I loved the main character Stella. The story was unique, there was nothing I didn’t like about it, one of the best books I’ve read this year.
I seriously enjoyed this book more than anything I have read in a long time. Truly a breath of fresh air. Stella is charming and amazingly real. All the characters are which is a good trick if the author can do it - and she did. Big time. I’m on to the next one right this minute!!
If you like well fleshed out characters, lots of antics and drama, then this would be right up your alley!
"My parents had no inkling I was different, and naturally neither did I. It was some time before it dawned on me that not everyone saw and heard as I did."
"When people can’t believe their eyes they don’t, they usually rationalise. That’s been a lifesafer for me, on more than one occasion."
"Just when you think you’ve got your ducks all in a row, somebody comes along and shoots them down."
Witch Dust yanks you into the story and characters and doesn’t let go until the very last word – at which point you don’t want to leave this fantasy world; a world carefully created to intertwine with normal, everyday life.
Another brilliant book by Marilyn Messik and any book that makes my own dysfunctional family seem normal gets 5 stars from me.
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