I have seen this one on some must read lists and then at work I was putting out books on a sale shelf and the over just wouldn't let me go...so I read the first couple of pages and had to finish so bought it. I really enjoyed this a lot. It was unlike anything else I've read in that it was a true fairytale and not a hybrid (think House of Salt And Sorrows).
Alice and her mom Ella have been on the run from bad luck her whole life, all 17 years of it. Her memory is spotty and things sort of run together but she blames it on bouncing around so much. But when Ella gets a letter that her mother, Alice's grandmother, died she tells Alice their bad luck is over and they can stop moving. But odd things still keep happening...and then Ella is kidnapped and Alice is ready to do anything it takes to get her mom back...and then finds out not only is her mom not who/what she thinks, but she herself isn't anything close to what she expected...
Alice's story is interspersed with fairytales from a book that her grandmother wrote...and they are quite dark and creepy and more a part of her than she imagined....
With her "friend" Finch she sets off to solve the mystery of her life and her mother's disappearance and her grandmother's not being in their life and what happens next is just fantastical.....
An entertaining read!!!
(Finished Sept. 11, 2019)
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