New middle grade fantasy fiction
So does it feel like January just streaked past? How did it get to be February for goodness sakes? I always heard as you get older time passes more quickly, but this is ridiculous! Anyway, luckily, I had enough time to slow down and finish a book! And even better, it was a really great book! It's called "The Storm Keeper's Island" and it's written by Catherine Doyle. It came out in January and I was lucky enough to get to read it as an advanced reader's copy on Netgalley. It's about Fionn and his sister Tara who go to spend the summer with their grandfather on the island where he lives and their parents grew up. Fionn is especially missing his dad, who disappeared off the the coast of the island in a boating accident. Right away things seem a little weird. His grandfather's house is full of candles. His sister keeps trying to sneak away to meet her boyfriend, an annoyingly smug and handsome boy from the island named Bartley. ...