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Book Review of The Tale of Halcyon Crane

The Tale of Halcyon Crane
Bonnie avatar reviewed on + 425 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1


This book was a disappointment and waste of time. I admit that I didn't finish it, but I did get to the last chapter before I just couldn't take the childish writing, the pat scenes, the predictability, the lack of substance. And niggling at me throughout was the fact that the heroine did nothing all day. Nothing. She read books while waiting... she ate bowl after bowl of stew. She screamed like a little girl at inappropriate times. She inherited a fortune, a home, but never had to sign a darn piece of paper or do anything to but read books, wait, eat bowls of stew, bathe, or bed the lawyer, who should have been working on her legalities. Ridiculous, stereotyped ghosts. Book was absolutely filled with cliches and I am baffled that it actually got by editors.