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Watts, Leander
3 Reviews
(4)
YA
When Zee joins a band led by a charismatic new friend, she discovers that she is a water god, thus completing the band's elemental "tetrad" (fire, earth, wind, water). When an older, sinister tetrad covets Zee, it leads to a deadly struggle. The plot is scattered, and Zee's character blandly malleable, but Watts's atmospheric effects are consistently intriguing, lending depth to both.
Reviewer: Claire E. Gross
(4)
4-6
In this religiously charged story set in the backwoods of early nineteenth-century upstate New York, teenaged Hannah's addled father sells her to two neighboring brutes for a year of service. Hannah, an outsider with one green eye and one white, is a strong, self-sufficient young woman. Stock secondary characters and a bit too much melodrama mar an otherwise intriguingly written novel.
Reviewer: Jeannine M. Chapman
(2)
4-6
This haunting novel, set in 1835 New York State, is written as a journal. Albion Straight, fourteen-year-old apprentice stonecutter, reluctantly accepts a commission from the mysterious John Good to create carvings for his unbuilt mansion. But Good is possessed by a dream; the mansion, a maze of unfinished possibilities; Albion's task, a nightmarish commitment. The denouement is all of a piece with the gothic events that precede it.
Reviewer: Mary M. Burns
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2002
3 reviews
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