...when it comes to Lady Julia and Brisbane. Barnes & Noble has put up an excerpt from Deanna Raybourn's upcoming Silent on the Moor and I settled in to read it without batting an eye. The book's not due out for a month but who are we kidding? I'll take what I can get. And what I got was excellent. Enjoy.
First of all. How about those gold lips? Shimmery! The color of those lips does a good job of representing the glittery-but-dangerous magic in this book. Just as the pale skin of their owner conveys the tone of the story quite well: pale, cold, and creepy. I'm pretty sure this is my first pixie urban fantasy and I wasn't sure what to expect. What I did not expect was feeling like I was back inside the world of Stephen King 's It . But apparently if a book's got Maine, winter, and a town with a curse on it, it will always evoke the same prickly, back-of-the-neck feelings in me. And Need 's heroine shares my sentiments. Zara's stepdad is dead. After watching her waste away day by day, Zara's mother puts her on a plane and sends her to her de facto grandmother--her stepdad's mom Betty. Betty lives in Maine. Maine feels like another world to Zara. A world in which the every surface is blanketed in snow and the local teenagers are all track stars or foot
Ooh, I can't wait for "Silent on the Moor" to come out!
ReplyDeleteI know. I'm actually falling asleep at night ruminating on what will happen. Gonna be a long month...
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for posting that link! Amazon irksomely cut off the excerpt at a good part. (Grumble, grumble.) I know what I'll be reading March 1st!
ReplyDeleteGrin. You bet, Chelle. I was a bit disgruntled at the cutoff as well.
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