Veiled Rose is a fantasy adventure. But it's one I can't quite figure out. In one way, it has the feel of a children's story, written in the language you usually find in kid's books. Yet it is complex enough a story to confuse me. There are things that seem unexplained to me. When I requested the book, I didn't realize it is book two in a series. Though book one apparently deals with entirely different characters (I haven't read it), I wonder if maybe it set up the background for this story and the world that both take place in. That would explain the details that are never explained, as though the reader is assumed to already have a foreknowledge of some things.
That said, if you start with book one of the "Tales of Goldstone Wood" series, Heartless, you will enjoy this book even more than I did. For I did enjoy it. I love fantasy stories.
Leo is stuck at Hill House for the summer. He is a boy who is tired of the indoors and the company of his boring cousin. When tales of a monster begin circulating, that's all the motivation he needs. He sets off into the forest with his beanpole-weapon in hand. He doesn't realize that what he will find there will alter the course of his life.
Rose Red is a girl who hides in the forest, guarding a secret. Her friends are an imaginary friend and a goat. But her life is changed when she meets Leo. Together they have adventures and hunt the monster. But how far will their quests lead them?
I don't want to tell you more for fear of giving something away. Let me just say: read Veiled Rose!
I received this book free from Bethany House Publishers as part of their blogger book review program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions expressed are my own.
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