Reading roundup – 4th April 2014
Reading Roundup / April 4, 2014

Altered by Gennifer Albin is the second in the Crewel World series of YA novels which tells the story of Adelice, a young woman of Arras with the skill to manipulate the weave of life itself.  At the end of Crewel we were left with a real cliffhanger – Adelice had just broken out of the control of the Guild and escaped to Earth where a whole new set of challenges await her. While there was a lot I liked about Altered I didn’t find it as gripping a read as Crewel.  I didn’t feel it lived up to the promise of that punch of a climax to book one.  I found I really missed Arras and Earth wasn’t as interesting a setting.  This is the second book in a trilogy and like many, it suffers from middle book syndrome.  A lot of time is devoted to setup for the finale of the series with the discussion of the skill of altering, the flip side of the coin to what Adelice can do, and yet for me it was still not exactly clear what the difference is between altering and weaving.  The end goal for the series is setup and…