reige wasn’t breathing! Finally Breige started breathing and Emer found the chalice. All of the town was happy and the ghost never bothered Emer again.I thought this was a very good and interesting book. The writer somehow kept me interested in the book at all times and I couldn’t put the book down. The writer described things well, but she didn’t use difficult vocabulary so it was easy to understand. One example of the author describing something is when she was telling about the doll Emer found. She wrote, “It was a small figure, a doll, no size at all, with a face battered by time and rock.” Although I cannot relate to much in this book, I can understand the feelings of Emer when she saw the ghost. I can also understand how she feels about school. Breige also torments Emer a lot and Emer finds it annoying. One example is when Breige kept imitating ghosts after Emer told her about the doll. The setting for this book was Northern Ireland. The time period wasn’t mentioned, but it seemed to be pretty modern. Emer’s family lived in a part of Northern Ireland that was called ‘Bloody Headland’ because when the Vikings burned the church down a lot of people were killed. The setting made the book seem mysterious and dark. The author added to this feeling by making it snow in April. There were a lot of characters in this book. The main character was Emer. Emer was a girl that didn’t pay attention during school. She was a very determined person, and she was very brave as well. One example of Emer being brave is when she met the ghost. Emer wasn’t afraid of the ghost, and only wanted to help it. Kathleen was Emer’s oldest sister and she was a high-school student. She was very strict but sometimes fun, like when she took Emer to the fortune teller’s home. Emer didn’t get along with Kathleen, because she was so much older than her, but she got a...
