Good start, disappointing end

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	• The China Garden Liz Berry HarperTeen, 1999 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 120 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Unique and Magical

Even though I found a few ideas and parts of this book dissapointing and sometimes some parts stretched out longer than needed, I found this a wonderful read, unique and different in a special way. You find yourself submerged in the place called Ravensmere, a valley twisted in magic and legend. You become the main character - Clare. Liz Berry is excellent at using gorgeous imagery that is beyond dreamy and you wish you were there seeing it with your own eyes. And you won't stop reading till you find out what happens at the end. So go discover it for yourself!

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good book

This book is about when a 17 year old girl named Clare moves away. She moves to Ravensmere, English Estate. She plans on resting throughout the summer because she is going to attend a University in Fall. She begins to have Psychic visions. One leads her to go to the China Gardens around midnight. Her mom tells her that Clare and herself have a connection with the estate and all of Ravensmere is in danger... Clare might have to risk Ravensmere's future... will she?

Read this book to find out. I thought it was pretty good. It's worth the time. I enjoyed this book, its not my favorite but it is very good. I would reccomend it to all of you.

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LOVE THIS BOOK

I read this a few years ago and I had lost it up until a few weeks ago. It has touched me even though it has been a while since I read it. It just was such an amazing story and deserves all 5 stars.

The China Garden by Liz

Do you like books that suck you into the plot? That make you feel like you're right there with the characters? Then The China Garden is the book for you. Claire Meredith is a bright young woman, college bound and headstrong. Then her mother takes a position in the country as a care taker for an elderly gentleman. She can't explain it, but Claire feels the need to accompany her mother, even though it's been like a cat fight between the two lately. When they arrive at the old English manor house Claire gets the eerie feeling of coming home. Strange things strat to happen to Claire; people she doesn't know come up to her and start talking like good friends, she has visions, and her mother won't let her go near the main house. All because of a secret that everyone's hiding. A secret people have died because of. And when Claire falls in love with a shadowy motorcyclist, Mark, the plot turns into a tornado, whirling through mystery, love, action, and beautiful images.

The China Garden is one of my favorite books. Liz Berry is an excellent writer who keeps everything hidden until the end. All of the characters undergo a change during the telling of the story, which makes it intriging. The book weaves a wonderful web of the old meeting the new, magic, and finding power within yourself. I recommend this book to EVERYONE!!!

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Good start, disappointing end

The book starts off well, with an interesting premise and a believable heroine. I found the second half a bit disappointing, though, because it became predictably preachy and politically correct. The older generations are ruining the world, women have a different way of thinking, women are more in touch with nature, etc. A much better book with a great teenage heroine is "The Perilous Gard" by Catherine Marie Pope.

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