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The writing style pretty much got me through the book. But, at the same time, I think Hardinge did a good job of not making it sound like we were reading a MG novel, something I really appreciated. The story is told in third-person, so there isn't really a connection to Faith, the main character that is followed. I will say that the writing of the book was probably the best aspect. I think that if things had just been narrowed down a little bit, the story would have been better. There was the prim and proper English society expectations, the science elements, the magical aspects, and to top it all off, lies and deceit and murder. I think there was a bit too much going on to really make the story the best it could be. The rest of the story also felt a disjointed to me. I knew he was going to die, but no one in the book did. And the whole time I felt like I was waiting for the other shoe to drop. There was talk of Faith's father's death in the synopsis, so you would expect him to either a) already be dead or b) die within the first like three chapters. I'm still not really too sure what was going on most of the time. I just felt caught off guard and had such expectations as to what it was supposed to be that I was disappointed that wasn't how it turned out.īeyond that, the story was a little random to me. If I had gone into this book knowing what it was, I would have enjoyed it more. I am perfectly fine with a MG historical fiction, but I have to be prepared for it. I think I almost immediately got off on the wrong foot with this book. She sets out to find his killer and finish the research he was doing on the tree that grows with lies. When her father is found dead, Faith is sure it wasn't a suicide, but that he was murdered. Faith struggles with conforming to the life of a proper lady when all she wants to do is help her father with his discoveries. After her father's disgrace and falsification of fossils found, the family flees to an island off the coast of England, hoping to escape the rumors. The story follows 14-year-old Faith, the daughter of a respectable family and reverend-turned-natural-scientist.