(1) YA Colors of Madeleine series. With marvelous surprises and her usual perfect timing and panache, Moriarty's final book in a trilogy set in two worlds is jam-packed with secret identities revealed and talents discovered. An alluring mix of fantasy, humor, coming-of-age, romance, history, mystery, and political intrigue, Moriarty bends (and blends) genres the way the good people of Nature Strip, in the Kingdom of Cello, bend Colors.

Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2016

(1) YA Colors of Madeleine series. In this second book in the trilogy (A Corner of White), Madeleine (in Cambridge, England) and Elliot (in the Kingdom of Cello) continue to communicate through letters they send through a "crack" between their two worlds. The characters' desperate yearning for absent loved ones adds emotional depth to the story, which is full of clever invention and intrigue, excellent surprises, and sophisticated wit.

Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2014

(1) YA Colors of Madeleine series. Fourteen-year-old Madeleine lives in contemporary Cambridge, England; fifteen-year-old Elliot is in the Kingdom of Cello, a parallel world where he has found a "crack" between the two places and begun a correspondence with Madeleine. Moriarty is the queen of epistolary stories; her fans will find the teens' letters a familiar entrée into this highly unusual fantasy. Irresistible characters help readers navigate a tantalizingly complex plot.

Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2013