The Valley of Secrets

This is one of my all time favorite books! I bought a copy of it on my trip to Seattle. Within one day, my grandmother, who was on the trip with me, finished the book. The first chapter I didn't find interesting, so I put the book aside for a while. When I finally came around to reading it, and reall......more

This book has the most beautiful cover of all my young adult fiction books... but you can't judge a book by its cover, right? Well this one was just not my cup of tea for the first 2/3 of the book. There's only one character, which is tough for keeping an audience's focus, but Hussey built an incred......more

Listened to this on audio and nearly dozed off...multiple times. Very little action, hardly any dialogue, lovely and LENGTHY descriptions... might have been nice to find in grandma's attic on a rainy afternoon and read snuggled up by the fire, but I couldn't get into it. Although I had to finish it......more