Title: Not in the same league as Wicked and Confessions
Product review: I was terribly disappointed in this book, which comes nowhere close to the pleasures offered by Maguire's two excellent previous novels. With its hodgepodge of allusions to Peter Pan, Jack the Ripper, A Christmas Carol, etc., all painfully forced, the story goes nowhere interesting, and the central character never comes into sharp focus. She was neither likable nor dislikable. And the author's attempt to inject English flavor into the narrative seemed very self-conscious. I still regularly recommend Wicked and Confessions of an Ugly Step-Sister, but it was obviously a mistake to assume that Maguire's future works would necessarily reach the high standards set by those two books.
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