Kara's family is moving away and Quinn is struggling with the change. Quinn, 11, and her best friend Kara are traveling cross-country with Kara's family. The Inn BetweenWritten by Marina CohenIllustrations by Sarah WattsPublished by Roaring Brook PressRecommended for ages 9+The Inn Between is a stunning, touching, and chilling juvenile fiction book from author Marina Cohen. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s). (Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful.

The characters weren't particularly compelling, the mystery was spoiled, the plot was meandering, and ultimately, I was left cold. The climax was the characters figuring out what I'd guessed 80% of the book ago. For a while I thought maybe the author intended it to be easy to figure out the twist, and there was going to be some interesting plot twists ahead, but no. Of course a kid may not figure it out as quickly (I'm a fairly bright adult), so this is my take on reading it for me, not for giving it to a 10 year old, say.

Unfortunately, I knew where they were, and why, instantly, so that was discouraging. This falls into that subgenre for most of its length. Maze Runner is a recent famous example, or House of Stairs, or Riverworld. There is a particular sub-genre of books-I don't think it's named-where characters are somewhere, and the point of the book is to figure out where they are, or why they're there, etc.

The inn between by marina cohen