I was expecting more magic in The White Hare. It was a typical creepy old house in the English countryside type of story which are very common. The pagan references were interesting but not suspenseful enough to keep me engaged. The story was a little boring and there were too many unlikeable characters. I appreciate the author's inspiration for writing this story, but I think she could have incorporated more magic and spookiness into the plot. I liked the toy Rabbit, he/she was my favourite character and at the beginning of the book I thought it was going to be a darker more adult oriented version of The Velveteen Rabbit (which would have been pretty interesting). I'm not sure why the book was being marketed to fans of Alice Hoffman, because I didn't feel it had enough magical realism to interest Hoffman's fans.

Overall, The White Hare is a story that hops to Cornwall, England's mystical pagan past, but doesn't go far enough in bringing its magic and mystery to a suspenseful level. A little too predictable for me.