I don't mind immersing myself in a book that is a little bit magical and wonderfully weird! Fortune tellers, mermaids, doomed lovers, a family curse, and ocean storms preceded by thousands of horseshoe crabs. I will not be recommending it to my book club, an unadventurous
…more bunch that hated my selection of The Night Circus!
I found it very interesting that the author studied book binding and offered her manuscript to publishers as replicas of the antique book that Simon receives in the novel. What a way for her to get notices. Wouldn't it have been fun and an adventure to read such a book! (less)