Lily Taylor lives in England in a small flat and walks to school everyday. Cursed with a mother who is angry with her all the time, a father who doesn't care, and canned food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, Lily's life isn't exactly ideal. It gets worse when her family disappears. Suddenly she's shipped off to the wilds of Canada and a world and family she can barely imagine. Her new family welcomes her with open arms and secrets untold.
What I liked:
- Lilly seems to be a fairly likeable girl, quiet, well-behaved, compassionate, and lonely.
- The sudden all consuming first glance romances
- Contradicting story line - Rose's husband's disappearance, why didn't Sammy revert
- The story throws too many characters/species in it, for seemingly the sheer hell of it. They would be better introduced slowly over the series, not all at once.
- Anti-climatic
- Who are the ravens at the window?
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| 3.5 crowns out of 5 |
Recommended for young adult readers and mature kids. Parents should be a little wary of the young age at which several of the characters marry and have kids.
Synopsis:"After the inexplicable disappearance of Lilly Taylor's parents, she has no choice but to move to Canada where she unravels some frightening yet intriguing family secrets...
Her whole life had been based on a lie. Lilly had grown up in a loveless home with a father who she had barely ever seen and a mother who was... well, not very motherly.
After they mysteriously disappear without a trace, Lilly is sent to Canada where she finds a whole new way of life. A life filled with love and people who care for her. But that's not all she discovers, Lilly also finds out that she isn't who, or what, she thinks she is.
Lilly has a very special ability and it's just a matter of time before her true self starts to shine. And when it does, her life will never be the same again.
Raven is a fantasy novel for children and young adults set in the beautiful province of British Columbia."
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