Title: The Mist on Bronte Moor
Author: Aviva Orr
Paperback: 257 pages
Paperback: 257 pages
Pub. Date: Jan. 8, 2013
Publisher: WiDo Publishing
Source: provided by author for honest review
Source: provided by author for honest review
Goodreads Summary:
When fifteen-year-old Heather Jane Bell is diagnosed with alopecia and her hair starts falling out in clumps, she wants nothing more than to escape her home in London and disappear off the face of the earth.
Heather gets her wish when her concerned parents send her to stay with a great-aunt in West Yorkshire. But shortly after she arrives, Heather becomes lost on the moors and is swept through the mist back to the year 1833. There she encounters fifteen-year-old Emily Brontë and is given refuge in the Brontë Parsonage.
Unaware of her host family’s genius and future fame, Heather struggles to cope with alopecia amongst strangers in a world foreign to her. While Heather finds comfort and strength in her growing friendship with Emily and in the embrace of the close-knit Brontë family, her emotions are stretched to the limit when she falls for Emily’s brilliant but troubled brother, Branwell.
Will Heather return to the comforts and conveniences of the twenty-first century? Or will she choose love and remain in the harsh world of nineteenth-century Haworth?
Starting Lines:
Doctors can be wrong. Everyone knows that. If only they'd been wrong about me.
My eyes drifted from the downpour outside to the spiky blond hair of my ex-best friend, Simon Davis, who sat two seats ahead of me in history.
My Thoughts:
Heather is one of the rare people who's cursed with the hair-falling illness, alopecia. There's nothing her doctors can do, and lately, Heather has been pushed to the brink of a meltdown.
She can't take the pressure at school and the fact that her best friend isn't talking to her anymore is slowly destroying her. So she decides to take a break from the world, a vacation of a sort. She decides to go visit her great-aunt, who lives quite a way from England.
And everything seems fine for a moment, until Heather gets lost in the mist while she wandered the moors... and she stumbles upon Emily Bronte and her family... back in the 1800's.
The Mist on Bronte Moor is unforgettable. The story is beautiful, the writing is magnificent, the characters were so incredibly realistic that I felt like I really knew them. I have nothing to complain about. Aviva Orr has accomplished exactly what Emily Bronte did and what many other authors couldn't... she left me utterly speechless.
Heather starts out as a very insecure character. She's sensitive to her flaws, but that completely changes once she meets Emily and Branwell. I like her because she's a tough character, like Catherine in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. She's got one of those sharp, stubborn personalities that attracts the reader's attention no matter what.
Branwell, on the other hand, is a very troubled guy. His flaws go from drugs to brawls to depression. And yet, even though I repeatedly told myself I wouldn't like him, I ended up loving him. No matter how conceited and disturbed he was, he had these rare moments where he became this lovable, sweet guy.
The relationship between Heather and Branwell s i z z l e s. There's no love at first sight, actually Branwell thinks Heather is a boy when he first meets her, and there aren't any overly gushy moments. They spend only a couple of moments together before everything falls to apart.
The story in general is a refreshing take on the lives of the Bronte family, with a small twist of course. It's a beautiful novel that I'll probably be rereading again very soon. There're very few cliches in it, and the amount of predictability is close to none.
Overall, I love it. I love the eerie tone, the shocking truths about the family, the character's flaws, and the characters themselves. It's a story you can't miss.
This is a MUST READ for fans of the Bronte sisters. I highly recommend it!
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