No complaints though, this was a great book to listen to on audiobook.Story (4/5): This started out super slow but I ended up enjoying it once all the strange fae creatures started appearing. The narrator did speak pretty slow for me, so I ended up listening to this at 1.2x. I borrowed this as an audiobook through Audible Plus.Audiobook Quality (4/5): The narration of this book was very well done and pleasant to listen to. Series Info/Source: This is a stand alone book. It's difficult to talk about without giving away some of the power of the book, but if you like creepy reads about children and want a dark read, I'd absolutely recommend it. Her ability to bring life to historical characters and settings for middle grade readers of adventurous horror is unmatched as far as I'm concerned, and although I had to take my time in reading this book, I'm so glad I did. As an adult reading it, the gravity of how traumatic these experiences would be for a child-and the way even the fantastical horrors could be seen as translating into real life trauma-added an extra layer of horror to the story, which was already fairly dark.But, all that said, Hardinge is an extraordinary writer. As a child, I'm honestly not sure whether I would have loved the book or felt tortured by it. And I love dark books.but there's a reality to the horror experienced by the children in this book which goes somewhat beyond the page, and there were times when reading it simply became too much for me.
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