This is one of the most physically beautiful books that I own. Everything about it is green - the pages are trimmed with green and even the text is green! The story was like a drawn out fairy tale with an overly hammered in message at the end- all in all making it Agatha Christie mated with _Ferngully_ - still it was an entertaining read. She does have a second book, but unless it is as physically beautiful as this one, I am not terribly interested.
On one hand this is a delightful urban fairy tale (with the required black and twisty things in the night, of course.) On the other hand, the very ending of the story becomes a polemic warning of future destruction. CHANGLING GARDEN is, overall, a good read. Elze's writing is imaginative, even lyric.
From back cover: A PLACE TO PUT DOWN ROOTS... When Annie and Mark and their five-year-old son, David, move into a grand old Victorian house surrounded by a jumble of gardens, they are not prepared for the terror that awaits them. Annie soon realizes something is changing little David, drawing him into an unnatural bond with the chaotic tendrils of vine and root.
A GARDEN OF UNEARTHLY EVIL... Now strange things are happening in the garden, while terrible, violent crimes begin occurring in their once-peaceful town. As an unknown enemy stalks her family, Annie finds herself and her son drawn deeper and deeper into the dark and mysterious life of the garden. And what happens on this patch of land surrounding her home will send seeds of change blowing across the planet to sow a crop of transformation...or destruction.
From back cover: A PLACE TO PUT DOWN ROOTS... When Annie and Mark and their five-year-old son, David, move into a grand old Victorian house surrounded by a jumble of gardens, they are not prepared for the terror that awaits them. Annie soon realizes something is changing little David, drawing him into an unnatural bond with the chaotic tendrils of vine and root.
A GARDEN OF UNEARTHLY EVIL... Now strange things are happening in the garden, while terrible, violent crimes begin occurring in their once-peaceful town. As an unknown enemy stalks her family, Annie finds herself and her son drawn deeper and deeper into the dark and mysterious life of the garden. And what happens on this patch of land surrounding her home will send seeds of change blowing across the planet to sow a crop of transformation...or destruction.
