The Story Traveler
by Max Candee
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Pub Date Mar 28 2016 | Archive Date May 14 2019
Helvetic House | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles
Description
Fifteen-year-old Haley Spade is enrolled in an exclusive boarding school in Connecticut. This school has a grim mythology: Everyone believes that the angry ghosts of six students who committed suicide decades ago still haunt its halls.
On a dare, Haley spends a night wandering through the “haunted” building. But she takes a wrong turn into a dizzying adventure of stories made real, stories within stories, worlds within worlds. She encounters magical creatures like the King of the Cats, a shapeshifting crow, elves—and a menace far more terrifying than any ghost.
Suspenseful, fast and rooted in several fairy tales, The Story Traveler captures our yearning to be more than what we are. Haley’s bizarre journey will leave her and the reader wondering: What is reality?”
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781311151988 |
| PRICE | $3.99 (USD) |
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Evelina A, Reviewer
This was quite hard to get into (took about a third for me to finally break through to where I'm following the story), but it was alright after that. However, it's somewhere between 2 and 3 stars. The story is pretty convoluted and quite hard to figure out, so you just end up having to gullibly buy it and go with it. The main characters aren't very natural or believable (Haley is supposed to be a teen girl. She doesn't feel at all like one.) Also, the book felt vaguely somewhere in between of YA, middle grade and even adult in places - I feel like it would have benefited more, had it been written solely as a middle grade story.
The enjoyable bits of this were the secondary characters which don't really need to be that deeply fleshed out anyway, so they didn't really suffer from what I mentioned before (plus, a talking cat character? Yes, please.) The stories they traveled were also interesting. But the ending wasn't satisfying (and I don't think there was eventually a sequel?) The story could have been so much better, because the plot itself did carry some promise initially.
I thank the author and the publisher for giving me a free copy in exchange for an honest review. This doesn't affect my opinion.
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