Her friends feel like bit players despite the small cast of characters, and the villain fails to be truly evil or stir the reader’s sympathy with her backstory. When she finds her inner strength, the shift is abrupt, to the point where the reader feels it could have happened much sooner, or, realistically, would never have happened at all. Iréelle’s behavior is indicative of an abuse victim, which feels discordant with the rest of the story. This title could have filled the gap left by Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, but it fails to capture the same haunted magic and atmosphere that one expects from a story set in a graveyard. When Iréelle runs away into the graveyard, she meets a boy like her, who tries to help her escape. Iréelle is too slow when gathering bone dust from the graveyard for Miss Vesper’s new creations her crooked limbs make her awkward, and her temperament-desperate to please-only encourages her harsh creator. She was made from bone dust by the mysterious Miss Vesper, who threatens to imagine her away anytime Iréelle displeases her. Gr 4-7–Iréelle is stranded between real and not-real, alive and not existing.
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