Thought this book has a lot of potential I ended up losing interest on it. The story about the magic carousel is great, I already had read a book with a similar story and loved it, but sadly this wasn't the case with this one, even though as I've sait it has alot of potential and strength.

On the things that I didn't quite felt fitted were the Uncle, which I think wasn't doing a very good job of taking care of the family and the way he kept pushing Char to go to the ponies without telling her the whole story... seemed odd to me. Also I would have liked more character and relationship development because I felt like the kids had just arrived to live with their Uncle after some immediate tragedy, and it turns out they had been leaving together for a bit, only in the city, but to me it didn't feel like they had a relationship or any kinship. I felt like the situation was new to every one by the way in which they interacted.
Also the characters seemed like they had a lot of potential but were left underdeveloped and fitted into cliches.

On the other side, the idea was great: a magic carousel full of woden ponies with their own personalities, needing magic to go on and claiming their own human to help them out. And all the things surrounding it were great.... hidden in the woods because some of the ponies had already been stolen, it passing from family member to family member skipping some in between...