Seventeen-year-old Bridget is a huge fan of fantasy writer R.M. Haldon, the author of a series which bonded her to her mother through the worst moments in their lives. A chance encounter gives Bridget the opportunity to become Haldon’s researcher, her excellent eye for detail enabling him to fact check
Review: Eyes of the Forest – April Henry (Square Fish, $24.99)
By Louise Ward
Napier Courier·
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'Eyes of the Forest' author April Henry.
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The pace moves at a gallop, the tone light even during the most menacing scenes. Bridget is herself a consciously-written trope - the feisty flame-haired heroine - and the author sets everything up neatly, with no unnecessary padding. Eyes of the Forest - the name of both this novel and Bob’s novel within the book - conveys the power of story and how much the world invests in it, and the way in which a writer who has had success unleashed upon him becomes vulnerable to the expectations of his readers.
This was a wildly entertaining novel, aimed at a young adult audience of those about 13 years old and up, and actual adults who love a good yarn.