I think that it is a great read, it is well written and the author can really tell a good tale.
This is a story about a girl whose name is cricket - yes unusual but this is a fantasy, and I would recommend it to 10-12-year-olds. There are some frightening aspects of this story. This is described as season one and what a start! Cricket is 12 and realises that fairies do actually exist and not a myth- but not in the cute way we think of fairies these are scary fairies (the reader learns why they do not take teeth from under children's pillows) after her brother is kidnapped and thus begins the quest to find the brother. There are just so many levels to this story, why is there black dust everywhere? what is happening to her parents in the way they appear to be acting? This is a real suspense-filled story and a book you simply cannot put down. I think that it is a great read, it is well written and the author can really tell a good tale. Cannot wait for season 2 and I am an adult.
The author of this book has quite an imagination.
The author of this book has quite an imagination. A young girl who lost her mother and lives with her Dad, Step-Mother, Janice, and brother Tristan doesn't get a gift from her mother on her birthday. This is the first time her Dad didn't give her a gift from her Mom. This is when it gets interesting as Cricket notices she's seeing colours, just like her Mom did. She doesn't understand all this. During all this excitement, her best friend Penny stops liking her and she can't understand why. Then her baby brother, Tristan disappears. The story continues on a journey for Cricket to find out where her brother has been taken and why. She learns and experiences many things on this journey, but all ends well. A vivid imagination is needed to really enjoy this book and young minds are always vivid and wanting to be challenged in new experiences and learn new things.