Leslie’s Reviews > Whyborne and Griffin #1-3 > Status Update

Need a break. Too intense with the whole asylum thing

End of threshold. It felt like a let down. Snub the butler, kill the competition, blow the mine. Dunno. Felt haphazard.

Ok it’s finally gotten to a point that I’m sure I haven’t read it. I was right about the plot line though so it makes me wonder if it was borrowed from the other story I remember.

Threshold seems familiar and I suspect I’ve read it apart from the series before.

Widdershins has an excellent flavour of magic, darkness, and hope. I love the characters. The have strongly delineated personalities and roles, which means a bit of stereotyping, but it also means they are very firm in my imagination. I love Hawk’s voice in general, and the tone in this one is intimate and intellectual. I appreciate the first book on this series and look forward to the others in the box set.

Whybourne’s low self esteem is emphasised constantly. The sensory experience is repetitive. Just the constant reminder that Percy is weak and the guardians smell like rot. Ew.