And she learns at last the real reason why Brimstone put so much importance on hope.Įvaluation: This is actually a book worth reading twice. Before long, Karou’s entire life is in upheaval, as she discovers who she is and why, who Akiva is, and why she instinctively considers an angel to be an enemy. Something in her shouted “enemy!” and she ran, but Akiva, the angel, caught up with her. Then, on one fateful trip to Marrakesh, she saw one of the Seraphim, or race of angels. He would never tell her why they were so important, nor the purpose to which he put them. Through magic portals, she would go to different cities in the world and collect teeth for Brimstone. When Karou wasn’t busy with school or with her one friend Zuzana, she was running errands for Brimstone. Wait for love.”īut perhaps his more important advice had to do with wishes, for which traders around the world paid in the teeth he collected: “‘When an essential one comes along, you’ll know,’ …. No poisons or chemicals, no fumes or smoke or alcohol, no sharp objects, no inessential needles – drug or tattoo – and. Don’t put anything unnecessary into yourself. “‘I don’t know many rules to live by,’ he’s said. She craved a presence beside her, solid.”īrimstone doesn’t let her know or see much about her past or present life, although he does offer the occasional advice (I love this!): She was lonely, and she feared the missingness within her as if it might expand and… cancel her. “Karou wished she could be the kind of girl who was complete unto herself, comfortable in solitude, serene.
She doesn’t know much at all about how she, as human seeming as all of her friends, got to be a part of this strange family, nor why she feels so empty and lonely all the time: There is Brimstone, or “The Wishmonger,” her stern father figure who sports a majestic set of ram’s horns maternal Issa, a snake from the waist down and woman from the waist up and acting as a sort of uncle and aunt to Karou: Twiga – giraffe-necked, and Yasri, – parrot-beaked. Her home life is a bit weird, however the chimeric monsters she sketches for school are not figments of her imagination, as her schoolmates assume, but rather the only family she knows. Karou, age 17, sassy, punky, and blue-haired, lives in Prague, Czechoslovakia and studies art in school.
Numerous bloggers “best of the year” listsĪnd so really, does anyone think I could resist? LOCUS (MAGAZINE OF SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY) REC READING LIST 2011
SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOKS OF 2011ĬHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, BEST OF THE BEST 2012īARNES & NOBLE REVIEW, BEST YA FICTION OF 2011 YALSA TOP TEN BEST FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS, 2012Ī NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE CHILDREN’S BOOK OF 2011 At first glance, absolutely nothing appealed to me about the prospect of reading this book, from the title to the cover picture to the notion that it was heavy into fantasy to the fact that it was only the first of a planned trilogy.
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