The Seraphim’s Song By Barbara Casey Book Tour, Guest Post & Giveaway! {Ends 8/1/22}

Review By LAWonder10:

In this fifth book of the F.I.G. Mystery series, the beloved teacher, Caroline, is facing increasing danger, again. Warning sare there, but will the FIGs be able to use their unique gifts to decipher the messges in time?

This can be read a a “stand alone” but is so much more enjoyabe if the boos in the previos series have ben read.

This series is about some very difficult, gifted girls, all sent, at varying times of their lives, to live in Willow Ros Orphanage and Academy for Girls.. Because of their unique gifts and mischievousness, they bonded and became their own club.

The characters are very beliveable and feel real. The scenes are portrayed well. The Title and Book Cover are very eye catching and chosen well. 

This  is a recommended series for Middle Grade, YA and adults. Iyt is fll of mystery and intrigue. It nvolve specially gifted individuals, gypsies and orphans.

This earns a Four Stars rating. 

TThis book was gifted me with no pressure to post a positive review. This is my honest review.

THE F.I.G.’s “EXPRESSIONS OF CREATIVITY” by Barbara Casey

Throughout The F.I.G. Mysteries, one of the on-going themes is how Dara, Mackenzie, and Jennifer, the three orphans with intelligence quotients in the genius range, manage to keep themselves entertained and motivated at the Wood Rose Orphanage and Academy for Young Women. It is the responsibility of newly-hired Carolina Lovel to keep the F.I.G.s under control. It isn’t easy; the F.I.G.s’ idea of entertainment and motivation keeps the campus and everyone associated with the orphanage in turmoil—especially the headmaster, Dr. Harcourt:

Even though Dr. Harcourt hadn’t revealed his reason for summoning Carolina, it never even occurred to her that it was anything but something her girls had done. Last month, they had wrapped Dr. Harcourt’s pristine office in aluminum foil.

Everything—pens, sheets of paper, curtains, desk, rugs, telephone—was covered in silver. Even the paperclips piled in the black-veined onyx bowl, a gift from another graduating class, were each individually wrapped. Nothing had escaped.

Punishment had been light, considering it was their latest “creative expression” as it was referred to around campus, in a long line of inappropriate, disruptive behavior they had subjected Dr. Harcourt to over the years, probably because he realized they would
be graduating soon, leaving Wood Rose, and he wouldn’t have to be concerned with them any longer. They were ordered to unwrap
everything and then confined to their dorm rooms for two weeks otherthan going to the cafeteria for meals, or the chapel for Sunday
services, which was pretty much their usual routine anyway.

The month before that, it had been the discovery of unauthorized reading material—or, moreex plicitly, magazines revealing male nudes—in the FIGs’ rooms. Contraband of this nature was totally unacceptable, stringently opposed to the morals and teachings at Wood Rose, and an extreme violation of the rules. For
that, they had been assigned kitchen duty for two weeks – washing dishes and cleaning up the dining room after each meal. The symbolism in this punishment had not gone unnoticed by the FIGs or Carolina.

There had been many other expressions of creativity over the years at the place where the FIGs called home, deeds that had been dutifully recorded in the historical archives at Wood Rose, but lately these expressions seemed to have taken on what most of the faculty and staff considered a more menacing tone of a sexual nature.

Creative acts of mischief serve as a release mechanism to these three young women who intimidate the faculty, are avoided by staff whenever and wherever possible, and are simply considered “weird” by the other
orphan/residents at Wood Rose. It is Carolina Lovel, the sensitive young woman hired to keep the F.I.G.s on a “short leash”, that keeps potential disasters from happening at Wood Rose.

Through the months and years living at Wood Rose, Dara, Mackenzie, and Jennifer – the three females of intellectual genius – continue to seek the answers as to why they are so different, how did the three of them wind up
at the same orphanage, but most important of all – why? As they find the answers to their questions, the raw emotion of discovery makes them stronger as young women. They are more able to accept who they are in a society that chooses not to accept them, and move toward the greater sense of what their purpose in life is. Even with this new-found knowledge
and maturity, however, the need to express themselves creatively never leaves, much to the chagrin of Headmaster Harcourt.

LuAnn, I appreciate your interest in The F.I.G. Mysteries. Thank you for hosting me. All my best to you and your bloggers. ~Barbara