What if there was a world underground where people only had a few expressions, where one girl has a multitude of expressions and this starts a dialogue about the world and the politics of the world. Where the things that people produce are almost magical how can there be equality for those who have...
Welcome to Caverna, a sprawling, fantastical underground city where master vintners brew wines which can erase memory, where cheesemasters create dairy products which can destroy entire streets if not kept correctly - and where facial expressions have to be bought. It's a world to trap the unwary, o...
Have you ever imagined how it would have been like to live during the Eighteen or Nineteen centuries? Well, that probably happens to each and every one of us, every time we read a historical romance, right? Now imagine all of that...environment, but instead of having the sky and earth for backgrou...
Grandible the True Cheesemaker is content staying in his side of the Caverna making cheese that are beyond imagination, a scowl almost permanently on his Face. But when one day he pulls a girl out of cheese curds, this strange cavern city will be turned upside down. Neverfell has a face like glass, ...
3.5Wonderful ideas, beautiful settings, interesting plot, good writing. I think I would have loved this more if I was the actual age group this is aimed at, as I don't think it transcends age quite as well as other books I've read of the like. However it's still a lovely read, and I wouldn't be surp...
I do not have shelves for Dangerous Cheeses, Twisted Caves, or True Wine which can call up or erase memories. If I thought there was the slightest chance that I'd ever get to use them again, I would create them.This synopsis is not going to convince you to read it, but here goes: Neverfell is a 12-y...
DISCLAIMER: There is an actual risk that one of the patient's charts in my local ER will say by tomorrow, '28yo female presents with symptoms of NyQuil poisoning, incoherently rambling about underground cities and glass faces. Poison control contacted.' Yes, this review is written in that febrile...
CHILD,THIEF,MADMAN,SPY,which speaks the truthand which one lies?That is the tagline on the other edition of this book. And I don't believe one has ever been so appropriate and fitting before.Thus it also becomes the perfect prelude to one of the most expert account of a girl with a face like glass v...
Recommended by Abigail Nussbaum as "Yet more proof, if any were needed, that Hardinge is one of the finest writers currently working in YA. A clever novel about tradition, class, and social conditioning, set in one of Hardinge's trademark elaborately realized fantasy worlds."
Read-a-long take two, with the lovely Lyn!What a wonderful, weird, crazy, inventive story. Impressive, well-written and imagined, and just plain engrossing.
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