Anita Bradford

An interesting and promising start. Then swirls into repetitive description and jumps from reality to dreams. Everything is Zigzag!

Started off well but after half way, became unbelievable and too coincidental.

A far fetched storyline that I couldn’t quite believe in. I really disliked the main character, Juniper Hayward. It was interesting to find out about the publishing industry and there were lots of, well observed points made about racial tensions within this genre.

Overly explained boring village life.

The first two thirds of this book was promising and I thought I’d found a great story to get stuck into. However, several things started to annoy me about it. My belief in the character Blythe; was she really so naive and forgiving? Dad, Fox Reminded me of We Need to Talk About Kevin, so unbelievably selfish and soft. Violet had no redeeming qualities right through and yet the reader was supposed to have some empathy for the rejected child? The last third of the book was stretched and by this time I just wanted them all to fall victim of the wicked girl!