crowyhead's review against another edition
4.0
This is really excellent; like a lot of her books, it stands on its own, but having read it in the context of her other novels makes a lot of the magic stuff make more sense this time around. I think the books with Matt Black will always be my favorites, but this one is good stuff, too.
cindywho's review against another edition
3.0
I'd read this one about ten years ago, but couldn't remember it. It touches upon the same scary magic people as in the Thread that Binds the Bones combining it with the coming of age story of a young boy living in a small lakeside town with his father. He watches people in his spare time with an idea of someday becoming a detective, when the biggest mysteries in his life are his missing mother and the family that arrives to stay in a summer cabin and look for something powerful.
aimee70807's review
4.0
I liked this book better than the one that came before it. More interesting magic world-building like in A Fistful of Sky.
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