I'll be honest, this book wasn't for me. I found that it dragged in places and towards the end it felt rushed and a bit sparse. The story focuses on one child called Romiley Kemp whose father creates a series of books as a kind of treasure hunt especially for her. It is published and it seems the whole world wants to be in on the hunt.
Romiley meanwhile is a lonesome child with one friend and a cat to keep her company, besides her father. Her mother is elsewhere, having left when Romiley was four years old.
Now she lives in an old house with a moat around it, in the middle of the countryside.
She has some rare adventures, some probably are imaginary, some are real. I won't give the ending away by describing any more.
I have given this book a three, but for those whom this book strikes a chord it would probably be a four or maybe even a five.
"Romilly Kemp in the book stayed young and innocent, a sickly-sweet imposter who wore my dress and suckled at my father’s love, leeching it away until there was barely any left for me at all."I received an e-ARC of this novel through NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. NetGalley does not allow for paid reviews.
3/5 Stars (What this means...five-stars-applied-carefully)
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'Evocative and enchanting – a future classic and a star in the making' Veronica HenryRomilly lives in a ramshackle house with her eccentric artist father and her cat, Monty. She knows little about her past – but she knows that she is loved.
When her father finds fame with a series of children’s books starring her as the main character, everything changes: exotic foods appear on the table, her father appears on TV, and strangers appear at their door, convinced the books contain clues leading to a precious prize.
But as time passes, Romilly’s father becomes increasingly suspicious of the outside world until, before her eyes, he begins to disappear altogether. With no-one else to help, Romilly turns to the secrets her father has hidden in his illustrated books – realising that his treasure hunt doesn’t lead to gold, but to something far more precious…
The truth.
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