Tracy T. (charliebear) - , reviewed on 10/25/2010 + 26 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 4

Take every (and I mean EVERY) cliche you can think of -- cultural, social, relationship, new age, yes all of them --, put them into one long book and you will have the text of The Tale of Halcyon Crane.

While the writer has good control of the concepts of plot and pacing, she really needs to work on character development, dialogue, and consistency. From the lack of all those things, I can only assume editors are no longer employed by Henry Holt publishers. There's no question this book, simply by the deletion of extraneous dialogue and totally useless scenes, could have been cut down to 220 pages. Of course, that would only serve to make the waste of your time in reading it much less.

Having read it, I would never recommend it to anyone for any reason. It has not an original thought in it and, as I said, feels like a "paste together" of all the rot floating around on Oprah and on Ghost Hunters.

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