Review of Serafina and the Black Cloak




An exciting new mystery-thriller about an unusual girl who lives secretly in the basement of the grand Biltmore Estate and must solve a dark and dangerous mystery. This Disney Hyperion novel became a New York Times Bestseller in the first week of its release, and has been a smash hit ever since.





My Review:

Five Stars

Serafina and the Black Cloaks cover is what enticed me to want to read the novel in the first place, the blurb made me want the novel more so, and eventually led to me getting the book. And I’m glad that I did. It’s one of those novels that you can’t help but continuously read no matter what you may need to be doing. And it’s that way because every turn of the page holds a new adventure for Serafina. And it leaves you guessing until the very last page what is really going on, none of it is predictable.

The novel starts of off with Serafina and her Pa, explaining a little about their life in the Biltmore Estate. They live in the basement of the estate and no one knows they are living beneath them. Which I find a bit odd that you can live somewhere and no one know you’re there, but the Biltmore is a large place, so it’s possible for someone to go unnoticed, especially a girl like Serafina. To simply put it Serafina is more cat-like and she’s excellent at sneaky around undetected. Which does her good when she’s roaming the halls of the estate at night catching mice.

But one night things change and a girl goes missing. Seraphina sees what happens to the girl and freaks out. She tries to convince her Pa, but he refuses to believe her. I ultimately feel he refuses for more reasons than is let on here, and a lot of that gets wrapped up as the story progresses. So, Serapina does what any child would do, she investigates. Though I don’t think most twelve year old children can say they’ve done what she’s done, and if you can then kudos to you because you’re a bravery twelve year old than I was.

Ultimately Serafina and the Black Cloak is a story of friendship and one girl desperately wanting to belong to the world that doesn’t know she exists. She wants to be seen instead of just see, she wants to interact instead of daydream of interacting. And if you’ve been hidden for your whole life wouldn’t you want that too? And rather than hiding, like her Pa, she takes the challenge, regardless of the danger. And she does it because deep down she knows she’s something different and she knows the woods contains what she is, and she knows she’s the only one that can stop the man in the black cloak.

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