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January 2014 & June 2014, Amazon media, 124 pages & 140 pages, Ebook, Review copy
Content: moderate peril, tissue needed, humour,
Summary from Kathleen's website
The Blue Velvet
Emerson Amelia McBride is a normal American teenager; she goes to school, plays soccer, and roams the mall with friends. Her life is just like any other 14-year-old's until one day, while cleaning the attic, she is suddenly jerked back in time.
Where is she and why is she here? Is this a dream or is this her real life? These questions and many more follow Emerson into a new life in a new land.
Smoke and Mirrors
Walking home from school 14-year-old Emerson McBride thought it was just another beautiful fall day, little did she know how wrong she was.
There’s
a secret in the attic of the old Victorian house where she lives, and
her best friend Sarah has gone up to the attic to look for a Halloween
costume.
Will
the same thing happen to Sarah that happened to Emerson the last time
she was in the attic? Will Emerson get home in time to save her friend?
Nayu's thoughts
This
fun time travelling series isn't too scary, which is a huge plus in
my book. That isn't to say there weren't lots of holding my breath
moments, but sometimes with these kind of reads there's an at times
overwhelming sense of doom that the character will never return to
their own time. It has to be said book 2 was a bit creepier than
book 1, but then I'm not a fan of spooky things.
Emerson,
with a little help from new friends, fits in well in the past. She
helps solves the dilemmas faced by using her modern day way of
thinking. I liked both books equally well, the first book because I
get introduced to Emerson, and I both did and didn't want her to
return to her home in the future because she got on so well with a
few characters. I equally enjoyed her second adventure because it's
always exciting reading a book when I already know the characters,
since it's like seeing friends again.
I
liked the way that Emerson ravelled back and forth in time, and how
much attention is paid to the details of what she feels and sees.
Emerson learns so much from hopping back to the past, lessons which
she can apply when she gets back home. I have to point out the
lessons aren't overly obvious – they are written in such a sweet
way readers will also take something away too.
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