Nomination Post #16
July's theme is wild.
Off you go!
1. Name of book.
2. Small blurb about the book.
3. Why this book is awesome.
Nominations will be open until Friday night. Voting will happen Saturday.
Off you go!
1. Name of book.
2. Small blurb about the book.
3. Why this book is awesome.
Nominations will be open until Friday night. Voting will happen Saturday.
2. Small blurb about the book. On an island of sandy beaches, dense jungles, and slumbering volcanoes, colonists seek to apply archaic laws to a new land, bounty hunters stalk the living for the ashes of their funerary pyres, and a smiling tribe is despised by all as traitorous murderers. It is here, in the midst of ancient tensions and new calamity, that two sisters are caught in a deadly web of deceits.
Arilou is proclaimed a beautiful prophetess-one of the island's precious oracles: a Lost. Hathin, her junior, is her nearly invisible attendant. But neither Arilou nor Hathin is exactly what she seems, and they live a lie that is carefully constructed and jealously guarded.
When the sisters are unknowingly drawn into a sinister, island-wide conspiracy, quiet, unobtrusive Hathin must journey beyond all she has ever known of her world-and of herself-in a desperate attempt to save them both. As the stakes mount and falsehoods unravel, she discovers that the only thing more dangerous than the secret she hides is the truth she must uncover.
3. Why this book is awesome. "It was a burnished, cloudless day with a tug-of-war wind, a fine day for flying. And so Raglan Skein left his body neatly laid out on his bed, its breath as slow as sea swell, and took to the sky."
There is no author quite like Frances Hardinge. I've never read any writing that manages to be so quirky and elegant simultaneously. Her books, like her writing, don't slot neatly into any predetermined categories; the stories unfold in amazing, unpredictable, jaw-dropping ways. She creates complete histories and mythologies for her worlds. There's humor and grim realism, hope and despair, fully realized worlds and characters. The Lost Conspiracy is an absolutely masterful book. I still don't know how to best describe it - you need to read it for yourself.
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