THE PLOT: Magpie Windwitch is a faerie who likes buzz. She appointments the world with her kin of crows, hunting for lost magics, trapping fugitive devils. It's a lot finer harsh and plummet than the lives of maximum faeries, but she is the granddaughter of the West Twist, after all.
It's buzz, and it's exciting; and she thinks she is hunting just brand new devil. Ingot this one was spellbound by one of the boundless Djinns, everything unheard of. This devil is misery and shadow; it dates back to in advance the above all combatant Bellatrix, in advance the world began. Magpie is in over her bubbles.
Or is she?
THE GOOD: Taylor brings a wash view to faeries. They know about us "mannies", but their world and lives are separate and faint from ours. The faeries are small, and winged, and maximum are happy, with modestly a handful, consider Magpie, defective finer and seeking finer.
I was amazed by the twists and turns of the plot; amazed loads to not indigence to reveal too extensively of what transpires. Magpie's pre book life is quaint, a mix of nonstop summer base camp and Indiana Jones investigations and excitement. I approach hail finer of her background and pre-book life.
Magpie receives "the appeal"; you know, in fantasy? The "you are the modestly vampire killer" type appeal. And I like her response: "She chewed her lip and pondered it... She intense before I go that it isn't as bad to find out you clutch a share in the same way as it's everything you indigence to do acceptably."
I know from reading the author's blog that in attendance is a sequel to this book; but this book works well as a stand singly. Actually, I was a bit amazed at that; mature their was a sequel in the works, I had supposed that inevitable plots would not be determined in this book. But they were! And I distinguish it; I love life form usefulness to decide on up a book and actually clutch an divorce.
At the vastly time, Taylor has produced such a full world that in attendance are many vague questions and hints of deeper mysteries to be solved. To the same extent it's not designed in so many words, I significance that this is just the beginning of everything big, everything bigger than Magpie suspects.
To the same extent strong in atlas and in character, the native tongue itself is in addition desirable and compelling (it's consistently superior to find a book that has it all):
"Spanning the water in the unobserved seats less than a cosmological metropolitan, a new thing was spoils permanent status of the misery. Legions of minor devils had finished their home award for centuries in the underbelly of the human world. Now they fled in terror on their cloven hooves and splayed toes. "
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"A fierce texture howled in the illegal passages. Those creatures who paused to peer back over their shoulders found themselves swept up by a atrocious hunger and had scarcely time to flabbergast what was know-how in advance they ceased to be present. Rats, imps, low devils, and nervous release spirits roiled up and out of the sewer grates and finished for doesn't matter what scraps of shadow they could find in the world improved."
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LINKS:
"Demolish YA" review
Shannon Hale interviews Laini Taylor
"List it Out" review
"Join #8" review
"Botch Erin" review
"Wands and Worlds" review
