If 1.5 stars was an option, that's what we'd be doing here. I'm paraphrasing, but that's what I took away from the statement.īut on the other hand. Oh, and at one point, a character says something along the lines of "you don't call girls heroes, you call them heroines" which, just, are you trying to say that girls can't be heroes? Because if so, gross.
Every part featuring him was pretty painful as Serafina basically becomes a useless quivering mess when he's around. I also found myself getting annoyed by a fictional Vanderbilt named Braedan (weird name for a kid of Dutch origins in 1899, dontcha think?) who is a bit of a love interest. As it was, even though there was a lot going on, nothing of importance ever seemed to really happen. Alternatively, he could've played up Serafina's secret a bit more, and that might have made things more interesting.
Had Beatty done a kiddo type version of an Agatha Christie novel (these are the people at the Biltmore estate.and one of them is guilty of MURDER MOST FOUL), I'd probably be typing a really different review right now. The first thing was the identity of the man in the black coat, which was painfully obvious from the start. There were kind of two main things going on that should have been really interesting, but weren't. The author took a cool premise and an even cooler setting and then wrote a really boring book. Narration aside though, this book had some problems. Her Southern accent was pretty terrible, but thankfully, she kept forgetting to use it. I listened to this book, and the narrator didn't really do it any favors.
One night, she witnesses a man in a black coat magically abducting a child, which changes everything. Serafina's presence in the house is a secret so she mostly traverses the estate through tunnels and doesn't go outside. She and her Pa secretly live in the basement, where he is basically the electrical engineer of the place. Serafina is the Chief Rat Catcher at Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC in 1899.
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