Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalestier is a book about a young girl named Reason living with her mother in the Australian outback, hiding from her wicked Grandmother in Sydney who is supposedly a witch. When Reason's mother has a nervous breakdown and is sent to a mental institution, Reason is forced to go live with her Grandmother. From the moment she arrives, she tries to reconcile the stories her mother told her all her life with the clean beautiful house she finds herself in. Trying desperately to escape, she unlocks a mysterious back door and finds herself in the dead of winter in New York City and realizes magic is real.
This could have been a good book, but being the first in a trilogy, Larbalestier didn't give anything away, the reader was left completely hanging at the end. Reason's questions were never answered and I felt as frustrated as she did. A disappointing read.
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