It took me such a long time to read this book, because I felt I had better things to be doing - I became bored! I loved the idea of the snowglobes and the travels through them, and the idea of the children discovering their magic and trying to make it work for them, but I think there was just too much going on. The main character kept talking about her mother and reading her notebook, and ignoring her father when he was trying to keep her safe, and going to the house and leaving and going and leaving and ugh. I think I just kept waiting for the exciting adventure to happen and enjoying the bits where it did and then it fizzled out and there was more of the same. I read it over the Christmas period as I thought the whole snowglobe theme would fit in nicely, and it did feel quite wintry and sort of festive ( while being nothing about Christmas) but I realised just over halfway through that I was dreading sitting down to lunch with a book and was replacing it with lunch and TV because I really didn't have any interest in Miss Moany Repeaterface and her friend no enemy no friend no wait we don't like him again. I liked the dog, though. I won't be recommending this to any of the younger readers I know as there is such a large amount to choose from at the moment, and I think there are better options out there.

I am grateful to Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book, despite this. ( )