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Ultimately, Tom, Reg, and Elizabeth all discover something about themselves, about each other, about whom they can (and cannot) trust, and about what each is capable of doing with a mix of faith and persistence. The suspense is well done, sufficient to keep a reader's interest—I was captivated enough to read the book through the first time in one sitting—but Wilson is equally successful at giving us cast of main characters we really care about, who are invested or become invested in events and decisions which are important. And that makes Leepike Ridge a good novel—and not merely good "young adult" fiction.
Matthew Dickerson is co–author, with David O'Hara, of From Homer to Harry Potter: A Handbook on Myth and Fantasy (Brazos Press).
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