By Nancy Werlin
Generations ago an Elfin Knight cursed the women of the Scarborough family. Each generation must try to perform three impossible tasks using a version of the song Scarborough Fair as a guide. They have all failed. Now it is seventeen year old Lucy's turn. Can she do the tasks in time or will she go the way of her mother and the rest of the Scarbourough women? Written around the song by Simon and Garfunkle, Impossible is beautifully written, with a wonderful plot and characters. I like the song Scarborough Fair, and loved Impossible even more. However, I enjoyed it, but if you don't like romance novels you may not want to read it.
Oh, that sounds like a neat premise for a story. At my library, though, the adults are only allowed to check books out in their own section so I don't know how I could read it. \
ReplyDeleteWhat is the "way of her mother and the rest of the Scarborough women?" What happens to them? Is it scary?
Umm, not sure exactly what happens to them.
ReplyDeleteHer mother is apparently insane for most of the book, but also keeps dissapearing somewhere. The book tells you the lyrics to their version, and at the end of each verse it goes "else she'll be a true love of mine",
and on the last verse there is one more line, "and her daughters forever possetions of mine". Brrr, I'm not sure what that means, how about you?
That's me, dad forgot to sign off last time he read this
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean adults are only allowed to check out books in their own section?
ReplyDeleteDo you mean that you wouldent be able to check out a kids book or one from the young adult section?
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