Fostering a love of reading is one of the gifts I am most proud of when it comes to my children. All of them are avid readers and although I let them make their own choices when it comes to their reading selection, Hubby and I want the books they choose to be age appropriate. I think that’s one of the reasons we love C.S. Lakin’s books. Our children have enjoyed the Gates of Heaven series and eagerly anticipate the release of new books in the series.
When the simple, backward village of Wentwater begins disappearing one word at a time, no one can figure out how to stop it. Not the learned men living up in the Heights nor the superstitious leaders of the village. But those who had attended the baby naming ceremony seventeen years earlier remember the words of the marsh witch, and her pronouncement that the babe would one day cause the unraveling of Wentwater. In their fear, the villagers banish the parents and set their cottage on fire, and the babe was thought to have perished in the flames. But . . . did she?
Teralyn lives in the Heights and wants nothing more than to create beautiful music on her lap harp. When she comes down to the village for a festival, she falls in love with a villager named Fromer—much to the fury of Fromer’s brother, Justyn. Justyn’s jealousy moves him to make a deal with the witch, and when Wentwater vanishes due to a backfiring spell, it leaves Teralyn—the only person left in the kingdom—with a terrible choice. She must leave her life and forget Wentwater, or she can spend seven long years restoring everything back to the way it was—by spinning nettle into thread and stitching the world back... one word at a time.
My Thoughts: Lakin manages to keep young minds entertained with tales of good and evil with a moral for good measure. A Grimm Light if you will. No gory storytelling here, just tales of adventure, a sort of fairy tale for tweens if you will. The Unraveling of Wentwater proved to be the perfect read for Los Tres Amigos. My oldest son read it in one sitting. He couldn’t put it down. When asked what his favorite part of the book was he replied “All of it”. I tried hard to get him to narrow it down but he couldn’t. That’s the kind of voracious reading this fab mommy likes. I don’t mind occasionally checking on the kids at bedtime only to see the sparkle a light dancing beneath their sheets as the words on the pages before them come to life transporting them to a world of fantasy where good triumphs over evil. Yeah, a good book does that and once again Lakin has written a tale young readers are sure to love.
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