Commenting on 'The Tilting House'

Jennifer, the librarian of the Jean Little Library, had some misgivings about the back-of-the-book promotions on Tom Llewellyn's The Tilting House:

The back of advertises “Page-turning intrigue in the tradition of John Bellairs and Ellen Raskin”. Now, I don’t like Ellen Raskin, but there is a certain disconnected quality to the mystery that reminds me of her. If you’re a Raskin fan, this is a good thing. If you’re not….But as for John Bellairs, well, I don’t think whoever wrote that cover copy had read any of his works recently. Bellairs’ stories begin in an atmosphere of mist and confusion that grows into helpless terror.