Having read a lot of Middle-Grade books, I feel this was unable to hold my attention in the way I had hoped. There is Flabberghast (High Wizard, Chair of the Tea Tasters Committee, and World Hopscotch Champion, 1835), Eric (the troll housekeeper) and Dr Spoon (the kilt-wearing, scientist spoon). It clutched its large, aproncovered belly and began to laugh a terrible laugh – a sound like two boulders being rubbed together the wrong way. Insgesamt kann ich hier nicht ganz einschätzen, ob die eigentliche Zielgruppe besser in die Geschichte und Welt eintauchen kann als ich oder sich sogar noch schwerer tut.

I absolutely loved Eric the troll, I cannot even begin to describe how much my heart just felt for him! The story is about this young orphan girl named Nine by the orphanage who finds a magical house while she goes out to steal something to give back to Pocket (orphan incharge). There is a lot to like about a magical story with strange goings on and I'm sure readers will become full invested. Misfit witch Willow Moss holds the fate of the magical world of Starfell in her rather unremarkable hands .She’d done that once when she was small – cried as Pockets’ filthy fingers turned her little music box handle.

I loved that this book picked up right after its predecessor ended; this made it really easy to slip right into the story without having to have any information dumps to fill the reader in on what they had missed.Es beginnt ganz harmlos mit der Reise, dann bekommt das Haus Schluckauf und ein spannendes Abenteuer beginnt. The wooden door slammed shut behind him then instantly melted into nothing, leaving a doorway-shaped, star-speckled blackness in its place. Man hätte den ersten Band zwar auch so stehen lassen können, doch ich war so neugierig, was Neun, Eiderdaus und Co.