Ravenwood by Andrew Peters

Sometimes a young teen or children’s book just blows me away and I read the entire thing in a single sitting. This book didn’t do that. In fact, I took me over a month to get halfway through the book. I never finished this book. I just got tired of the pacing and I never felt grabbed by the book. The writing had its ups and downs. At times there was great action sequences but then it sort of feel flat with in between parts.

The characters and the setting didn’t work for me either. Ark was an interesting character at times and I enjoyed some of the adventurous moments of this book. The bad characters had potential but they didn’t completely work for me. The setting didn’t work for me because I spent way too much time wondering how humans could climb around and have complete homes in trees. The guess, I felt the author never made a link to me so I could picture the world in my head. There are trees that people live in. Are they little people? Regular sized humans? If so, then how does the whole living in trees work? I guess I felt that something about this book made it so I could never fully drop into and experience Arborium.

Someone noticed I was reading this and by looking that the description and cover asked me if it felt like reading Ferngully (a movie from 1992). No, this didn’t have the “protect the forest” or whimsical characters that Ferngully has. I wasn’t enchanted by the descriptions of the world or the characters. This book left me waiting for better action sequences and descriptions of the world.

I also found that the age group for this book is a little low. I would recommend it to older children or younger teens. I am handing this book off to a nephew of mine and if he ends up looking it, I’ll come back and say so but I didn’t find this a compelling reading experience. 2 Stars.

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To find out more about Ravenwood and it's Andrew Peters, I'd recommend checking out this video, and then maybe goodreads.com. I couldn't find much else on this author.

 

I received this book through the Amazon Vine program.