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The Thirteen Hallows by Michael Scott and Colette Freedman is a dark novel that follows many different characters who are associated with the Thirteen Hallows of Britain. The novels bounces between present day and ancient times to give the reader a full understanding of the great power these seemingly ordinary objects possess. The story is more of a dark thriller than anything else. Between the elderly Hallows Keepers being brutally murdered and talk of demons preying on human souls, the reader is transported into a world of mysteriously dark magic that makes the reader want to continue in the story.

However, the story becomes hard to follow early on. Scott and Freedman take the liberty of using short novels traveling between eight to ten different characters. I found myself flipping backward between chapters to remember which character I was now reading about. Once I was able to get a hold on the characters, I found they were fairly well-developed. Sarah Miller and Owen Walker, the two main characters, were complex characters that any reader could relate to. Miller came from an over-bearing mother who wouldn’t let her live her own life, while Walker came from a broken family. My only wish in this department would be that the authors lengthened the chapters, or combined a few, so the reader could relate and connect with the characters earlier in the book.

Along the same lines, the passages written in italics about the history of the Hallows grew redundant and unnecessary. I felt that the talk of the Demonkind ended up being stale by the end of the book. Every passage seemed the same: the demons were strong and wanted to be released while a young boy worked hard to keep them at bay. Toward the end of the novel I even found myself speed reading and skipping portions of these passages to get to the present day action.

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Grade 3/5

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