Maybe I will pick it up again soon. I sigh when I think about reading this one. Maybe if I had not read "A Face Like Glass", this one would have gone over a little better. Meh.
Some YA fantasy-reading friends would like this, I think. :) (I admire it, but it didn't quite grab my visceral interest.) I've picked up Hardinge's Gullstruck Island and will read it, too, though not immediately.
This was my favourite book for the longest time. Yes, yes, I was at that beautiful age when I had a favourite book, but that's beside the point. I read this again, recently, and I'm glad to say that my opinion of it hasn't changed. While it's not my favourite book of all time anymore (you know how i...
I should have liked this book more than I did. I wanted to. The characters are utterly charming, the imagined world is terrific, and there's a decent plot meandering about here and there. Plus a magnificent guard goose!! I'm a big honking geek fan of Joan Aiken, Diana Wynne Jones, Lloyd Alexander ...
Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge is a YA novel about Mosca Mye, a girl who escapes her desolate life in a village where she is treated with suspicion because of a dangerous skill: knowing how to read. Her flight gets her tangled up with a disreputable Eponymous Clent with whom she travels to the cit...
Ok, I admit it: I basically read this book because of the Brett Helquist art on the cover. I was disappointed to discover that was all he contributed: no interior illustrations. At any rate, the book has a very interesting and unique (to me, at least) premise. It uses the English Revolution as a sor...
The premise is a little more interesting than the actual book. The protagonists aren't particularly likable. The plot is a somewhat intriguing, but not terribly exciting. I suppose my expectations should be lower for a young-adult book, but I've read many that have been excellent. This was mediocre ...
Set in an imagined place similar to England at the start of the 18th century. All the intrigue of Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, but with a manageable number of words. And a twelve-year-old heroine, and a vicious goose.I finished up loving FLY BY NIGHT even more. It's always delightful to me to watch a...
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