A Curse as Dark as Gold

The Miller's mill (funny how that works out) is having some troubles. In fact, a lot of troubles. First the old master dies, then a peculiar uncle shows up... And things just get worse from there. In fact, it almost seems like a curse, because just about everything that can go wrong does, that's just the way things work at the mill, always have, but not always will, if Charlotte has anything to say about it.

The bad: What I have termed as the highly technical "icky magic": the kind of magic that makes me grossed out and disturbed by its darkness, as opposed to the magic that is simply power that can be used for good or bad. This book has icky magic. Also, I found the main character deplorable.

The good: Hmmm, nope. Nothing.

What I think (the beautiful?) : Why do I even bother reading books that get awards? More often than not, they are completely awful. And this is just a case in point. At first I was "gelling" (as my mom says) with the whole "save the mill" thing, but Charolotte takes way too far. Not only did this book suffer from moral problems, it was just plain uninteresting. How long did the writer expect us to care about the boring (!) main character's problems anyway? Also, gold is shiny and bright, but the curse is evil (dark). So how is that suppose to make sense?

Fallacies in the title are just the start in this book...