Review: The House of Mountfathom

The House of Mountfathom by Nigel McDowell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

When I first picked this book up, I was a little unsure at first because the way that it was written, it seemed for a slightly younger audience than I was myself. But I found, the more I started to read, the more I was being pulled in to their world and the world of Mountfathom. I could easily picture all the hallways and rooms of the large house, each character as they played a role in each chapter.
It was a story of ups and downs, of twists and turns that you don't expect to happen, not to forget the heartache that you feel as the book progresses further on towards the end and you start to learn the fate of some of the characters and the unknown of the others.

I only learnt of the Authors death after I had finished reading the book and I felt saddened because I thought that the book could easily become a series or a duo, since it left plenty of questions which hadn't been answered, or that I felt hadn't been answered personally to myself. But It's also a wonderful stand alone novel, filled to the brim with magical happenings and wonder.

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