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Teen & Young Adult
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$2.99
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$0.99
Deal begins:
December 24, 2022
Deal ends:
December 24, 2022
A darkish fairy-tale twist on apocalyptic fiction—as acquainted as a nightmare, but altogether distinctive.
The conflict between humanity and Faerie devastated either side. Or so fifteen-year-old Liza has been advised. Nothing has been seen or heard from Faerie since, and Liza’s world bears the scars of its encounter with magic. Corn resists being harvested; dandelions have thorns. Trees transfer with sinister intention, and the city Liza calls house is surrounded by a forest that threatens to hurt all those that wander into it. Still Liza feels secure. Her father is powerful and has protected their city by laying down strict guidelines. Among them: Any hint of magic have to be destroyed, irrespective of the place it’s discovered.
Then Liza’s sister is born with faerie-pale hair, clear as glass, and Liza’s father leaves the child on a hillside to die. When her mom disappears into the forest and Liza herself discovers she has the faerie skill to see–into the previous, into the longer term–she has no alternative however to flee. Liza’s quest will take her into Faerie and again once more, and what she finds alongside the way in which could be the key to therapeutic each worlds.
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Excerpt
I had a sister as soon as.
She was a gorgeous child, eyes silver as moonlight off the river at night time. From the hour of her delivery she was long-limbed and sleek, faerie-pale hair clear as glass from Before, so pale you can nearly see by to the gentle pores and skin beneath.
My father was a smart man. He set her out on the hillside that very night time, although my mom wept and even outdated Jayce argued towards it. “If the faerie folk want her, let them take her,” Father stated. “If not the fault’s theirs for not claiming one of their own.” He left my sister, and he by no means regarded again.
I did. I crept out earlier than daybreak to see whether or not the faeries had actually come. They hadn’t, however some wild creature had. One look was all I may take. I turned and ran for house, telling nobody the place I’d been.
We had been fortunate that point, I knew. I’d heard tales of a girl who bore a toddler with a voice excessive and candy as a chicken’s track—and with the sharp claws to match. No one questioned that child’s father when he set the kid out to die, removed from our city, removed from the place his spouse lay dying, her insides torn and bleeding.
Magic was by no means meant for our world, Father stated, and of course I’d agreed, although the War had ended and the faerie people returned to their very own locations earlier than I used to be born. If solely they’d by no means stirred from these locations—nevertheless it was no use pondering that approach.
Besides, I’d heard typically sufficient that our city did higher than most. We knew the foundations. Don’t contact any stone that glows with faerie gentle, or that gentle will burn you fiercer than any hearth. Don’t enterprise out alone into the darkish, or the darkness will swallow you complete. And forged out the magic born amongst you, earlier than it could activate its dad and mom.
Towns had died for not understanding that a lot. My father was a smart man.
But the reminiscence of my sister’s bones, cracked and bloody within the moonlight, haunts me nonetheless.
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Reviews
“Pure, stunning, it is impossible to put down or forget.” —Jane Yolen
“Think of it as a cross between a Neil Gaiman fairy tale and apocalytpic fiction.” —The Poisoned Pen
“The mood is strikingly dark, and questions regarding mankind’s tendency toward suspicion and xenophobia will loom large in readers’ minds.” —Booklist
“Simner makes the most of her darkly clever conceit.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“With its dark, sharply imagined world, this will appeal to readers of Holly Black and Cassandra Clare.” —Kirkus
“Part post-apocalyptic adventure tale and part folklore, Bones of Faerie is definitely built on familiar ground, until the ground sprouts vines that try to eat you.” —Tordotcom
“A completely original world that you will not be able to leave until you turn the last page.” —Justine Magazine
“This is a lovely, quiet, sombre book about fear, war, and the possibility of healing.” —Fantasy & Science Fiction
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