The Cresswell Plot - Eliza Wass [Review]

Title: The Cresswell Plot

Author: Eliza Wass

Genre: Young Adult, Fiction, Mystery

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Publishing date: June 7th 2016

Pages: 272

Rating

★★★★☆

Hi, today I’m reviewing a book I read a while ago, The Creswell Plot by Eliza Wass, this book seems to have been published also under the name In the Dark, In the Woods with a different cover, but it’s the same book.

This book tells us the story of Castella Cresswell and her five siblings—Hannan, Caspar, Mortimer, Delvive, and Jerusalem. For years, their world has been confined to their ramshackle family home deep in the woods of upstate New York. They abide by the strict rule of God, whose messages come directly from their father.

Slowly, Castley and her siblings start to test the boundaries of the laws that bind them. But, at

Paperback cover.

school, they’re still the freaks they’ve always been to the outside world. Marked by their plain clothing. Unexplained bruising. Utter isolation from their classmates. That is, until Castley is forced to partner with the totally irritating, totally normal George Gray, who offers her a glimpse of a life filled with freedom and choice.

Castley’s world rapidly expands beyond the woods she knows so well and the beliefs she once thought were the only truths. She discovers that his father might be lying to her family with his imposing religion, and that all her family might be at risk because her father makes a chilling announcement: the Cresswells will soon return to their home in heaven. With time running out on all of their lives, Castley must expose the depth of her father’s lies and come up with a plan to save her family from her father’s grasp.

The Cresswell Plot shows the reader an insight of what is like to live under a controlling father who is also a religious fanatic, not a very good combination. Due to this you cannot expect regular characters. The Creswell family is definitely odd and hard to relate to if you haven’t live in a situation like theirs, but still is easy to feel some empathy towards them. They all have strange fears and attitudes that their father has imposed on them.

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [Review]

Title: pride and prejudice

Author: Jane Austen

Date published: January 28, 1813

Price: From $4 to $10 USD
Buy it: Amazon

Edition I read:

Orgullo y prejuicio (Spanish translation)

Publisher: Alfaguara

Translator: Alejandro Pareja Rodríguez

Date published: July, 2007

Pages: 382

Rating:

★★★★✩

Hello, this is my first review and I decided to do it of the last book I read, Pride and Prejudice by Jane

Mr. Darcy saying Elizabeth is not
 pretty enought to tempt him. 

Austen. This book is a romance classic; it's surprising that despite being published in 1813, it’s still quite popular and successful.

I think I’m one of few persons that read this book before watching any of its TV adaptations, so everything was new to me as I didn't have a clear idea of what the plot was about, I only knew it was a romance novel.  I decided to read it because I don’t like that genre and I wanted to read something I’m not used to.

This novel is set during the change of the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, and it mainly tells the story of the Bennet family. The Bennet’s consist of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, and their five daughters, Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia, whose ages range between 15 and 23 years old, and are all marriageable. The purpose of Mrs. Bennet is to marry her daughters to secure their future, because when her husband dies everything they have will pass to a cousin. They live their normal lives when a young man, with a considerable fortune, comes to town. That man is Mr. Bingley accompanied by his sisters, his brother in law, and his friend, Mr. Darcy. Mr. Bingley is a kind man and soon is interested in Jane, while Mr. Darcy is a proud and arrogant guy who ends up being despised by Elizabeth.

Things get more interesting after the arrival of Mr. Wickham at the military regiment; he is an old acquaintance and enemy of Mr. Darcy. Wickham and Darcy have different stories about how their enmity began, and Elizabeth will end up having to decide who is being honest. Is Wickham the victim and Darcy a monster? Or is Wickham a liar and Darcy the innocent one?