Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Mistress of the Storm by M L Welsh

Verity is not very happy when her grandmother she's never met before moves in and takes over her attic room, displacing her.  What a witch!


David Fickling Books (a division of Random House) sent me a copy of this book for review (thank you).  It's currently in the market and you can get a copy at your local bookstore.


Verity is different from her youngest sister and wonders if any man will ever be interested in such a "Plain Jane".  But when she finds a strange man crying in the library and he gives her an ancient red book, her life changes and she doesn't have time to worry about that anymore...


This story is full of action, danger, and skulduggery and reads quickly.  Verity doesn't understand exactly what she is up against, but she must stop it.  The setting is a small sea village in the UK that makes it almost eerie to begin with and the various troubles floating under the surface of normal all come to a boiling point with the arrival of Verity's grandmother.


Why not jump into this adventure and see how you would have acted under such adverse conditions.  I was rooting for Verity all the way through the story.


Happy reading!

2 comments:

WIPPYSPLACE said...

this sounds intriguing! Verity is quite an unusual name..I am reading a book now that is not really within my reading range...but alas--never hurts to get out of the box--does it? how do you cope? LOL *~*CAROLE*~*

Journey of a Bookseller said...

I enjoy reading a variety of types of stories. Right now I'm reading nonfiction and that takes me longer. The children's books don't take so long, so I always have a pile of those to do with some longer books in between. I read every day!

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