A Drowned Maiden’s Hair (Reviewed by Bidisha)

A Drowned Maiden’s Hair

Did you want to be adopted by a wealthy family? Did you also want to cheat people out of their money?...

11-year old Maud Flynn is adopted by the elderly Hawthorne sisters from the Barbary Asylum to the Hawthorne Grove, there she is a part of the seances that they hold. This is the way that the Hawthorne sisters cheat people out of their money. Two of the sisters, Judith and Victoria, do it to pay for their house mortgage. The 3rd sister, Hyacinth does it for herself. I think that this story is a mixture of realistic & fantasy fiction because it has characters that can exist in real life but places that might not exist.

A strength is that the story has a lot of suspense. For example, whenever a new chapter started, I wondered about the possibilities that could happen next. Another strength is that this story has strong vocabulary, like tress and immensely. Occasionally I looked in the dictionary. A weakness is that this story is sad. For example, in one chapter it stated that Maud’s family left without her.

I would recommend this to people in 3rd grade and people older than 3rd grade. If you are in 3rd grade the I recommend you to read it. Just try it. If you are older than a 3rd grader, then I already reccomended it to you. I rate this book 4 out of 5 stars. This book lost the 5th star because of the sadness. That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try to read this book!