You might catch a glimpse if you turn your head quickly enough. Ghosts and magic are all mixed into real life, giving it a dark appeal and sinister veracity, like a world just outside your vision. This book might be dark as hell but it's funny too. Watching her navigate Yale and provide her own kind of schooling for its students was a sheer delight. She's more than a little troubled, with the kind of past that usually lands someone in prison or a grave, and not a little attitude. A whole load of her idiosyncratic and compelling self. I've been trying to think of a comparison but all I can come up with is a bit Mia Corvere, a bit Faith. I want to shout about it to EVERYONE.Īlex is the kind of character you can't look away from, a survivor through and through. I felt like it was written for me personally. Not only is it a serious contender for my Book of the Year, it’s jumped straight onto my favourites of all time list. Safe to say it has all the ingredients for a great story.Īnd, wow, did it ever deliver. And that's before you get to all the juicy stuff inside. I don't know anyone who could resist that.
The main character mysteriously surviving a brutal multiple homicide. I'd heard lots of great things about Leigh Bardugo from fellow readers but since I don't usually read YA, I hadn't tried anything by her before.
When things go seriously, fatally wrong, she has to work out just how much danger she's willing to take on to make things right, and maybe even act the hero after all. Because now she's supposed to be keeping an eye on a bunch of entitled rich kids who have powerful backers and aren't used to being told what to do. Getting a free ride to Yale is the kind of turnaround so unlikely she could never have imagined it, but just like everything else in her life, what appears to be a big step forwards actually means that shit is going to get a whole load worse. Life has given her a serious Fuck You in the form of a very particular talent/curse and she's been more than willing to return that sentiment with interest. I never really believed her until tonight.’Īlex Stern is no hero. He’s always waiting to stick his foot in. ‘She always told me there’s no doorway the devil doesn’t know. Even with all the danger, with the pain and darkness and death, it’s a place that feels like possibility… I can’t remember the last time I wanted to step into a book so much, be part of a world so desperately.
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