The China Garden

Title: The China Garden
Author: Liz Berry
Series: None
Genre: Young Adult



I do a lot of book looking on Amazon. I look at books I like, find the lists people made with them on it, look at other books they like, take amazon recommendations, ect. This is one way I decide what to read. I love when I stumble upon a book with 5 stars that has had a lot of reviews. Liz Berry's The China Garden was one of these 5 star books. I got it, and sometime within the past month I read it. Boy was I disappointed.

If I had to give this book a rating, I would have gone with a 1. I found it boring, uninteresting and uninspiring. I'm don't even want to waste my time by typing up what it is about.

From Publisher's Weekly via Amazon, "Early on, events unfold at a leisurely pace at Ravensmere, an old English country estate where 17-year-old Clare intends to unwind for a few weeks before entering university. But questions and curiosities begin to accumulate, drawing the reader inexorably into a whirling mix of disparate, even outlandish elements-this is at once a ghost story, a romance and a coming-of-age drama, with psychic phenomena as well as historical and even ecological themes. In Berry's (Easy Connections) skilled hands, however, these motifs fall satisfyingly into place, piece by piece. The villagers seem to have anticipated Clare's arrival, and there is repeated, cryptic mention of the "Guardians" of the "Benison," an ancient treasure whose nature-the novel's deepest, most compelling secret-is not revealed until the final chapters. Only then does Clare learn the startling truth about her connection to Ravensmere and her strange, supernatural role in preserving its future."

A disappointment is all I have to say. I think the reviewer read a different book.