Recent Reads: The Little Grey Girl by Celine Kiernan

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The Little Grey Girl by Celine Kiernan
Series: The Wild Magic Trilogy #2
Publisher:  Candlewick Press
Publication Date:  Sept. 3, 2019

 

Format: Paperback ARC

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Goodreads Synopsis: 

In the second book of the Wild Magic trilogy, courageous young Mup and her family are trying to heal and restore the kingdom when they uncover an ancient and powerful anger.
The old queen and her raggedy witches have fled Witches Borough, and Mup’s family has moved into the cold, newly empty castle. But the queen’s legacy lingers in the fear and mistrust of her former subjects and in the memories that live in the castle’s very walls. While Mup’s mam tries to restore balance to a formerly oppressed world, Mup herself tries to settle into her strange new home with her dad, Tipper, and Crow. When an enchanted snow blankets the castle, Mup’s family is cut off from the rest of the kingdom, and the painful memories of the old queen’s victims begin to take form, thanks to a ghost whose power may be too much for even Mup and Mam to handle. Celine Kiernan weaves a timely and essential truth into the second book of her trilogy: that dismantling oppression means honoring the pains of the past, and perhaps the most potent magic of all is encouraging joy and hope wherever possible. 

Review: 
The Little Grey Girl is the second book in The Wild Magic trilogy. It follows a girl named Mup as her family is moving from the normal realm to the magical realm. 

This book seemed much darker than the first in the series and it was pretty spooky. Mup and her friend Crow are trying to figure out what is happening at the castle - there is a weird presence and it has people acting funny. I really liked the world building in the first book, this book does not have too much of that, but it worked more on the character development of Crow and some other characters which was nice.

The story, like I mentioned, was a bit spooky and dark, but very interesting and the pace was good. I really liked how it all wrapped up and am excited for the final book in the series.