Vampire Vocab

Hmmm…perhaps this is an indication that the direction of my blog is starting to lean towards faeries and elves more than vampires. Well, anyway, the Tree Shepherds Daughter by Gillian Summers is really a teen reading book. It’s nowhere near as intense as Tithe. If you have a teenager in your house, or even someone as young as 11 or 12, this is a good book to recommend.

The protagonist is a girl named Keelie Heartwood who seems to have an “allergy” to trees. When she moves to live with her father, after her mother dies, at his traveling medieval fair, she learns that her supposed allergy is about as far from the truth as possible. She plans to ditch the fair, but then odd things start to occur. To stop them, she will have to learn the truth of her heritage, and she will never look at the world the same again.

Alright, sorry for the melodrama in the last line, but if you learned that vampires were real, would you look at that pale soccer mom who only attended night games the same? Probably not. Anyway, the genre is fantasy, and on the scale, I would give it a 7 because it isn’t as thought-prevoking or intense as many other books I’ve read.

However, it’s great if you’ve just watched Slumdog Millionaire and your sure that your going to have nightmares, so you need a fluffy, cheerful book to banish all the unplesant thoughts from your mind. I call fluffy little books “fairy cake” books because in England they made these tiny little cupcakes and called them fairy cakes. Adorable, yes. Appetizing, yes. Filling, or otherwise profound, not really.

This entry was posted on Friday, June 19th, 2009 at 10:45 am and is filed under Books.
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