Roses & violets

Gry Kappel Jensen

Book - 2023

Four girls receive invitations to apply for a school they've never heard of and make it through the unusual testing process to find themselves placed in a magical boarding school for students with powers. Once the school year begins, a young woman's spirit urges the new girls to solve her murder which has been cold since the 1980s -- but unbeknownst to them, doing so will put them in mortal danger.

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Young Adult New Shelf YOUNG ADULT FICTION/Jensen Gry (NEW SHELF) Due Aug 27, 2024
Subjects
Genres
Young adult fiction
Romance fiction
Fantasy fiction
Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction
Children's / Teenage fiction: Fantasy & magical realism
Published
Stamford, CT : Arctis 2023.
Language
English
Danish
Main Author
Gry Kappel Jensen (author)
Other Authors
Sharon E. Rhodes (translator)
Edition
First hardcover English edition
Item Description
Originally published as "Roser og violer" in 2019.
Physical Description
333 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781646900121
Contents unavailable.
Review by Kirkus Book Review

This trilogy opener, translated from the original Danish, brings together a restless spirit and four new friends investigating an unsolved murder. Four protagonists narrate this well-written and well-conceived story. Wealthy, stylish, but haunted Victoria; prickly, direct Malou; insecure, unworldly Kirstine; and cozy, maternal Chamomile have been accepted as first-year students at Rosenholm Academy on Zealand. Not your average boarding school, Rosenholm teaches four branches of magic: Earth, Growth, Blood, and Death, and each student becomes a mage in one of them. Not unexpectedly (but helpfully for character development) Kirstine, Malou, Victoria, and Chamomile each have different mage abilities. In its narrative style as well as its emphasis on Norse mythology and magic, this one mostly walks its own path within a setting that holds evergreen appeal as a genre staple. As the story unfolds, Trine, the spirit who is haunting Victoria, reveals to the four girls during a séance that she was murdered at Rosenholm. Trine offers a mysterious warning and asks the friends to discover who killed her. The choice to alternate among the third-person perspectives of the different narrators works well, giving the novel a lively narrative lilt. Text messages, some cryptic, some not, liven up both the design and the intrigue factor. The ending sets up the next book in the series. Main characters read white. The Scandinavian atmosphere and engaging narrative voices uplift and deepen this magical boarding school story. (Fantasy. 14-18) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.