Customer Reviews

The Dark Garden

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This is one of my favorite books. I must have read it hundreds of times. I remember lines from this book that stuck with me, and shaped my trasition into adulthood. This novel captures the mysertious mind of young adults and teens while they make the difficult transition into adulthood.

I remember after I read this book, I redecorated my room. I was about 14 at the time, and having a difficult time in middle school. The main character has amnesia. When she looks in a mirror, she doesn't recognize her own face. She also cannot remember her own family, the house and the town she lives in. She has been in the hospital for weeks, and nothing has come back to her about her life before the accident. When she returns home for the first time, and enters her own room, it was like going into a stranger's bedroom. I couldn't imagine walking into my room and not recognizing it! In the detailed description of her room, the author described the decorated ceiling. The ceiling was covered in sheer squares of multicolored fabric hanging down that made one feel as though they were in a fairyland. When I redecorated my room, I did this in my bedroom. :)

I think this novel was well written and engaging. It is a modern ghost story for our jaded youth, who are used to the violence and crime in the world, too jaded by it to enjoy real good books.

I don't know about you, but I always want to know the other books that the person reviewing a book read before and after the one they are reviewing. I think it helps improve the reccomendation. :) Some other novels I read around this time period and in a similar genre are:

"Remember Me", "The Lost Mind" (similar themes as this novel!), "The Immortal", "Bury me Deep", "Whisper of Death", "Die Softly", by Christopher Pike

"Whispers from the Grave" by Leslie Rule

"Let me Tell you how I died..." by Simclair Smith
The Fear Street Trilogy: "The Burning" (BOOK 1), by R.L. Stine.

The Vampire Journals Trilogy by L.J. Smith

The Secret Circle Trilogy by L.J. Smith

So, if you like this novel, and want books that are similar, check out the ones I mentioned above. I hope you enjoy this fabulous young adult book as much as I did!

It was very mysterious at first, but very interesting. A young girl was riding her bike one day and fell and hit her head on the sidewalk, but doesn't remember a thing, not even her name.But something happened when she fell and now she has to find out why and what is doing this to her.

The book's about Thea, a 16-year-old girl who's suffering of traumatic amnesia after an accident on her bike. In the hospital she got these dreams about a beautiful garden with colorful flowers and a silverpond. When she returns home, the garden is like in her dreams, but the silverpond doesn't work, it seems to have been broken for years, and the flowerbeds are overgrown, like nobody had taken care of them in a long time. She doesn't regognize anyone in the family, the house though, is a clear picture in her head. But the rooms and furniture doesn't fit in and the room that sopose to be hers, she remembers a servent called Annie, should live. Thea begins to see people and hear voices that nobody else does, and if Lucas hadn't shown up she probably would have gone crazy!

I think the book was great. It was exiting to read it, but I didn't like Thea, as a person. She was too angry all the time!!!

This book might be one of the best books I've ever read, and that's saying something. Told in amazing detail by Thea, the main character who is suffering from amnesia, you realize how different two worlds can be for the same person. Intertwined in a mystery of the memories she is having that aren't hers, Thea is challanged with romance and spooks...I was so scared at times and then at other times I just wanted to smile and never stop because it was so good. Margaret Buffie has real talent for developing characters and I could see the house they were living in exactly. The book really brought out my emotions and I would recommend it to anyone! :)

The Dark Garden was an exellent book.thea who had had a byicle accident which caused her to get amnesia tries to find out who she is and who she isnt,when she comes back home hoping somthing will make her remember but she starts remembering some elses memories,but whos memories theas or someone elses,she thinks she has gone nuts and might have broken done if it wasnt for lucus who helps her discover a mystery on something that had happened long ago.it is full of action and drama and recomend it to any one who likes action,drama and romance all mixed into one.

I read this book and absolutely fell in love with it! It is one of those novels that forces you to believe one thing, and all of a sudden, something else happens. Absolutely mysterious and written beautifully... very passionate.

I think this book is fantastic, full of wonderful details ofThea's life and the dark garden. The mystery is filled with spookystuff, too. My sister and I both read it and we both loved it. We talked about it for ages after. I read it in a few days and it kept my interest right to the end.

Anyone who likes ghost stories would LOVE this book! I swear, it's the best book I've read in a long time! I usually take 2 weeks to read a book, but I got this one done in 4 days! I couldn't put it down! Everything in the book seemed so realistic, and had a spooky feeling throughout the whole book. I would recommend it to anyone who loves supernatural or ghost stories!

I didn't like this book all that well. The beginning was ok, and the storyline got better towards the middle of the book. The ending, however, was hard to follow and didn't flow with the rest of the book. It's like the author didn't take very much time to think of an ending, and was tired of writing the book.

I loved this book and how there were similarities between the families. It wasn't at all slow.