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Four and Twenty Blackbirds Cherie Priest Tom Doherty Associates © 2005 |
Eden had always been able to see the three dead sisters, but little did she
know how being meddlesome could change her life. The three sisters had
always bothered Eden, but she also never knew that they could one day save
her life. After going to summer camp and becoming friends with her cousin
(but she never knew it was her cousin), Cora, she began to notice a change
in the spirit world, there were...more. At camp, Cora and Eden battle a
white figure that greatly troubled Cora, but Eden didn't know what or who it
was, and she didn't want to. Cora had to leave right in the middle of camp
after the incident because her grandfather had died then her mother, father,
and then Cora died a painful death. Eden never knew this until later and she
wanted answers about her mother and her relatives. When she found out about
one person, she needed to find out more, which only led her to trouble. Her
cousin, Malachi, kept trying to murder her at random times after he got out
of jail, but never prevailed. When Eden arrived at a swamp looking for the
book of her grandfather, a book with spells in it that could raise the dead,
she met again with Malachi. Eden and Malachi fought, each attempting to
wound the other, but nothing worked. Eventually, Eden was able to get
Malachi into the trunk of his car that she had previously been. Then Eden
traveled into the swamp by herself. When she neared the spot where the book
was supposed to be, Eden met one of the three sisters. Then she saw the
other two, she witnessed how each died, killed by her own grandfather. When
she arrived at a small hut, where she had seen her grandfather walk into,
she saw him become more clear, he wasn't just an apparition, he was real.
There on the bed, in the far corner of the hut was Malachi, scared to death.
Eden had no time to think because her grandfather was talking to her. They
fought, orally and physically, Eden won, and with the victory she found all
the answers that she had been looking for.
I
really enjoyed this book only, all of the other reviews on the back say it's
a mystery book and even in the author page it says it's a mystery book,
but I didn't find it scary at all. Don't get me wrong, it was extremely well
written, but it just wasn't scary. I would recommend this book for high
school students because of the high level words and because vulgar language
in it.
Sing a song of breath mints, banana
cream pie. Four and twenty blackbirds take to the sky. When the sky is
filled up, with all the feathered wings, the birds will come protect me from
all those other things.
~ Ashley Aldan, grade seven, Boardman
Center Middle School