Kittredge, Caitlin The Nightmare Garden, 432 p. Random House, 2012. $18. Language: R (60+ swears, 0 ‘f’). Aoife (Ee-fah), 16, Has discovered that the necrovirus is a hoax perpetrated by the Proctors who want to keep Magic for themselves. As the Half Human/Half Fey who unleashed destruction upon her city, however, she is a fugitive – one who is determined to return to her city, no matter the cost, and release her mother from her imprisonment in iron – the iron that has been driving them all crazy.
All along her way, however, Aoife will make the same mistakes all head-strong characters seem to make – leaping before looking. She will leap into traps set by her enemies; she will leap into mistakes that could have been avoided had she just taken a moment to think. For all of her mistakes, however, you have to admire Aoife’s grit. I just hope that in the next book she actually makes some choices – maybe dangerous ones – but choices, instead of being used by everyone around her. I am not sure why the swear count shot up so high in this one – make it hard to justify it for a middle school. HS – ADVISABLE. Cindy, Library Teacher
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