Melody Murray's Books

This was a near-miss for me, but a miss all the same. There were some brilliant lines in this book, and one certainly champions all the Good Children, but there wasn't quite enough of anything to satisfy. There's no real depth to the characters, the animals are not described adequately, the indigenous people are too fairy-tale-indigene and the loathsome twins too, well, loathsome. Parts of it were splendid but most of it was ordinary. Favorite line: "If you want something enough you usually get it. But you have to take what goes with it." 2.75 stars.