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Winters, Cat
4 Reviews
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YA
Odette has always told younger sister Trudchen tales of their monster-hunting mother; after Od runs away, her letters home claim she's conducting cryptozoology research around the country. When the sisters reunite, Tru learns there's more truth to Od's outlandish stories than she imagined. Like a turn-of-the-twentieth-century, gender-swapped spin on television's Supernatural, this is engrossing paranormal horror with two strong, smart female leads.
Reviewer: Katie Bircher
(2)
YA
In 1923 Oregon, mixed-race Hanalee's father, Hank, was hit by a car and killed. The driver, Joe, returns from prison an outcast, which brings Hanalee and Joe together even though she knows him as her father's killer. When she begins to see Hank's ghost, it leads her to suspect foul play. While the influences from Hamlet are clear, the novel's plot flows naturally.
Reviewer: Sarah Hannah Gomez
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July, 2016
(2)
YA
In Portland, Oregon, 1900, strong-willed seventeen-year-old Olivia Mead supports suffrage; her overbearing single father does not. Dr. Mead hires handsome hypnotist Henri Reverie to "teach her to accept the world the way it truly is." Fluid boundaries between what's tangible and what's intuited, lucidity and unconsciousness, sanity and madness are particularly apt for this story about hypnotism and emotional manipulation. Reading list, timeline.
Reviewer: Katie Bircher
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2014
(4)
YA
Against the graphic backdrop of the 1918 flu pandemic and the horrific physical condition of many soldiers returning from WWI, sixteen-year-old skeptic Mary Shelley Black begins to question her opinions about the spiritualist movement when she finds she's able to communicate with her deceased lover. This novel's vivid San Diego setting is enhanced with well-chosen archival photographs, but the plot is overburdened with events.
Reviewer: Betty Carter
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