Ein Kleid aus Staub
by:
Sarah Zettel (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9783570402337 (3570402339)
Publish date: April 14th 2014
Publisher: cbj
Pages no: 320
Edition language: Deutsch
Series: The American Fairy (#1)
Das Cover hat mich direkt angesprochen. Es hat etwas Mystisches, Düsteres an sich, und doch etwas Realistisches mit einem Hauch von verblichener Vergänglichkeit- und damit passt es perfekt zu diesem Buch. Denn Sara Zettel präsentiert uns hier eine wunderbare, originelle Mischung, in der dunkle und l...
I cannot say I truly enjoyed this book. It was boring at times and though full of wonderful details, none of them added anything to the story in my opinion. We know Callie has features of both white and black, she talks about how coarse her hair is plenty to get the point across. But we really never...
This is one of those DNF cases for me where I don't feel like rating the book makes a lot of sense. I mean, it wasn't a bad book, I just didn't connect with it at all for some reason. It didn't grab me, and I don't really know why.
An ambitious and mostly successful combination of magical adventure and historical novel, this story of a half fairy girl set during the dust bowl years really brings that era to life with lively jazz clubs, deserted towns, racial inequities, and mountain high clouds of swirling, smothering dust. Th...
And then I read Dust Girl, which is quite different in that it takes place in Kansas in the 1930s. And I love the world that Sarah Zettel created–the sense of the suffocating dust, the creepiness of the monsters. I like the characters too, and the way Zettel interweaves Callie’s different identities...