Title: Good Premise Falls Slightly Short
Product review: I have to admit, the cover of this edition is what first caught my attention when I saw this book. Then I read the description on the back and the premise jumped out at me as being very original. I picked this as my first Gregory Maguire book. The premise is this. The main character is supposedly a descendant of the man Dickens based Scrooge on. She returns to England to her great-great-grandfather's house to visit a cousin. Once she arrives, the house is haunted and the adventure begins.I really like Maguire's style of weaving in various legends and fairy tales ranging from Dracula to Peter Pan to Jack the Ripper. I also like how multiple storylines criss-cross the chapters. I was disappointed in the second half of the book though. The merging of the storylines almost seemed like an afterthought, and the story ended with a "pffft" instead of with a "bang". I would recommend this book to others. Just don't get too worked up during the first part of the book.
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