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Reviewed by Kim Anisi for Readers' Favorite
Did you play 'pretend' when you were younger and hope that the worlds you imagined could actually be real? Then The Strings of the Violin by Alisse Lee Goldenberg will be a book you'd enjoy a lot. Carrie and her two friends are taken on a quest by a talking fox who appears in Carrie's garden. They end up in a world filled with beings and things from the stories they made up themselves and from stories they had been told by their grandmothers. And if there are talking foxes -- what else is possible?
Carrie and her friends promised the fox to help his world which is in great danger of being extinguished because the magical music that had been playing has stopped. Someone has stolen the magical strings of the violin and without the music, the world will fade into complete darkness. The girls' quest is to retrieve the strings -- but that's not such an easy task in a world where nothing and no one is what they appear to be.
The Strings of the Violin is a very well written book that keeps you turning the pages. The characters quickly come to life in the reader's imagination and it's very easy to get a feeling for the fantastic world they are in. The story is in parts funny and charming and in other parts exciting and fantastical. The novel is aimed at young adults and people who still carry the magic of fantasy stories close to their hearts. So I didn't feel too old to read the book because the book touched the hope that there really is some magic out there -- just waiting to be discovered by those who still believe in it.
