I am a fan of Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen. So I bought this book with some sort of expectations. However, it turned out to be a difficult reading for me because after I read the first few pages, my reaction was "Oh dear, I knew I should have bought his Keys to the Kingdom's books instead..."
Here how the story goes:
Paul and Julia are brother and sister. One day, Julia found a rag-doll which turned out to be the most evil thing ever, hence the name: Ragwitch. So the Ragwitch possessed Julia and brought Julia to her 'evil' world with Paul following without the ragwitch's knowledge. Naturally it was Paul's duty to save Julia. What he doesn't know though, he is also the chosen one who can destroy the evil Ragwitch, with the help of few friends he found along the way. Julia who was trapped in the Ragwitch mind, also found some help from an unexpected source.
Unlike the Abhorsen trilogy, this book isn't as textured and somehow it is somewhat too childish for my liking. Not the best book by Nix but I can't say it was bad. It just wasn't as gripping as his other books. It lacked something. But do not let my review discourage you from reading the rest of Nix's books otherwise you'll be missing a lot.
