Praise for Taken Away/Into The Grey
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The Sunday Business Post, Jan 2012
'young teenagers will be gripped by this supernatural thriller ... The novel's key theme of loss is explored ... with poignancy and some humor. An impressive work that... offers thrills along with an important but understated lesson in humanity.'
Readplus, Dec 2011
Celine Kiernan's mastery of imagery and ability to enthrall, will keep the young adult spellbound in her new novel Taken Away; added to this mix, is an edgy and faintly disturbing tale of 'Loss. Theft. A Haunting.' ... I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it as being suitable for placing on school library bookshelves. It is a well-crafted introduction to a darker genre of fantasy prose.
The Irish Times, Nov 2011
A truly haunting story.
The October Advocate, Oct 2011
Clever… Inventive… Genuinely creepy.
Robert Dunbarr, Sept 2011
The literacy skills inherent in Celine’s first novel The Poison Throne and fully enhanced by the two remaining novels of her ‘Moorehawke Trilogy’ have now been further enriched by what, in my opinion, is her most impressive fiction to date. This is writing of an extremely high order, eloquent in its imagination and warm in its empathetic humanity. It evinces the author’s understanding of what has been the subject of great literature since time immemorial, with what in another of his poems Wilfred Owen called ‘the eternal reciprocity of tears’. I heartily recommend it to all readers of 14 and well beyond, and I wish it every possible success.
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