I STARTED READING THE NEVERMOOR SERIES!!!

Why aren't more people talking about this book?! It was soooo good!

Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend is a middle grade fantasy book about Morrigan Crow, an 11 year old girl who was born on Eventide, which is considered a very unlucky day. She is supposedly cursed and is always gets blamed for bad things that happen in her community, and the curse also dooms her to die at midnight on her 11th birthday. 

But as the children in her community are being chosen to become apprentices for the different influential adults in the community, Morrigan gets chosen by an eccentric man named Jupiter North to become his apprentice, something she could never imagine for herself. Morrigan does not die on her birthday because Jupiter shows up to her house and whisks her away to the city of Nevermoor, where she is enrolled to become a member of the Wunderous Society, which is a society for people with (usually magical) gifts. Jupiter is a part of it himself. To join the Wunderous Society, Morrigan has to go through many different trials and pass all of them. It isn't easy, but luckily Morrigan loves her new life in Nevermoor. She gets to stay in the lavish Hotel Deucalion, owned by Jupiter, and she makes so many new friends along the way, as well as two enemies (well, one of them becomes more of a frenemy later on). At the same time, some mysterious figure named Mr. Jones keeps showing up at random times and tries to get Morrigan to leave Nevermoor and become his apprentice. Obviously, Morrigan turns him down every time, and Mr. Jones also turns out to be a bigger threat than she thought he was.

This book was soooo magical and enthralling. It really was a page turner. I liked how the atmosphere the story gave off was sometimes dark, sometimes whimsical, and sometimes mysterious. I look forward to reading the rest of the series.

I gave it 4.5 stars, but that was just because of the references of death and dying sometimes scattered throughout the book. But again, your mileage may vary.

Do you prefer dark fantasy or whimsical fantasy stories? Or a mix of both?