A sumptuous read full of eerie otherwoldliness
5 stars I did not know what to expect when I clapped eyes on The Children but it intrigued me. Simply put, Melissa Albert weaves a dark spell with her sumptuous prose. It was hard to break free from the power of this story leaving me tethered to The Children trying to figure out its mysteries. The story centers around the Sharpe children, Guinevere and Ennis, and their unorthodox upbringing at the hands of two artistic parents deep in the woods of New York. Feral children left without any adult supervision, they led a wild existence as their mother wrote the generation-defining Ninth City children's series, starring none other than her own children, making them household names. The Children carries a dark atmosphere so the reader can sense straight away there is something otherworldly afoot. We bounce back and forth from current day adult Guin and back to her ungoverned youth. Ennis and Guin parted ways soon after a life altering event occurred with Ennis going forth as an a...
