I'm not usually one for novels about Fae because faeries have never really interested me. I took a risk reading Shattered Blue and I was pleasantly surprised! Horowitz is an extremely lyrical writer with a gift for beautiful poetry. Noa's poems are actually my favourite part of this book because they are so well written. Horowitz's poems actually reminded of the poems I was taught to memorize in grade school: simple, colorful and concise with deep meaning through imagery. Nomad girls are Lost Ones too, with leaves at foot and crown; they too seek shelter in the ... Continue Reading...
Review: Lumière
Eyelet is a member of the Afflicted, a group of people who have strange, fear inducing conditions that are labeled madness. She hides this affliction every day with the hope that one day she will discover The Illuminator: a long lost machine her father built to cure her illness. Eventually she tracks down The Illuminator and catches an mysterious boy in the act of stealing it. The law wants Eyelet dead and she has little choice but to spirit away in the boy's carriage. So begins the story of a girl who learns the Earth shattering truth about her father's Illuminator ... Continue Reading...