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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2014 | Grades 9 and Up
Gr 9 Up—Yovanoff's writing is as thrilling and uneasy as the tales she spins. In a chilling hook, Fiendish opens with Clementine DeVore, buried in a cellar in New South Bend for 10 years with a hex bag tied to her throat and her eyes sewn shut. Impossibly, her rescuer, Eric Fisher, heard her breathing and dug her out of the ground to return her to her family, only for Clementine to discover that most people had forgotten her existence after "...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on June 1, 2014
Yovanoff (The Space Between, rev. 1/12; Paper Valentine, rev. 3/13) here weaves a haunting tale of old magic in a changing world. When Clementine was a child, a torch-bearing mob burned out her family; Clementine escaped by virtue of a magical coma that left her hidden, semi-conscious, in her cellar for years. When she's found and awakened, the eerie happenings (grotesquely mutated animals, animated plants, uncanny weather) that led to the mob attac...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2014
When Clementine, in a magical coma for years, is awakened, eerie things (grotesquely mutated animals, animated plants, uncanny weather) begin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
