LRC Book Critic Book Review - The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson

This book is written by Sophie Anderson and was published a few months ago. 

The House with Chicken Legs is about a girl called Marinka, she thinks she is an average girl and wants to have an average life. However, her grandma is the Baba Yaga she guides dead spirits from this world to the next. Even though she knows one day she will be the next one to help for the next generation., she can’t help but wonder how her life would be if she could choose her own path in life and not have to follow some destiny. Plus, this book is very interesting because every now and then the house moves to a new place and her cycle of helping her grandma guide the dead is never ending.

My favourite part of the book is when Marinka goes though the gate, this is because this was when she found out that she was actually alive- not dead. In addition, her loyal raven, her new living friend and the house all work together to try and save her. My favourite character is Marinka, this is because although she is very short tempered, she is not like the ‘rich’ girls she met at the market. She cares a lot about other people and wished that she had really valued the time she spent with her grandma.