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I've read a number of book-centric books over the years and quite a few of them are YA. Some hit you over the head with the book and others are subtle enough to flow right over you and sneak up and bite you in the behind.
This one is the latter kind.
Sure, the power of words is all over the place, but where I like it most is in Hardinge's worldbuilding. The history of this place is not only fascinating and rough, but clever and multilayered. I get the impression we're in an early English period ri ...more
This one is the latter kind.
Sure, the power of words is all over the place, but where I like it most is in Hardinge's worldbuilding. The history of this place is not only fascinating and rough, but clever and multilayered. I get the impression we're in an early English period ri ...more
This is my third book by this author and the first she ever published. Sadly, it shows.
The story is that of a world where books have become forbidden. Into this world a girl is born with the unusual name of Mosca. The girl is smart and inquisitive and loves learning about words. As is only natural for a story like this, personal disaster strikes and she is forced to flee her home together with her gander (the best character here if you ask me). She meets a lot of people, from vagabonds to thieve ...more
The story is that of a world where books have become forbidden. Into this world a girl is born with the unusual name of Mosca. The girl is smart and inquisitive and loves learning about words. As is only natural for a story like this, personal disaster strikes and she is forced to flee her home together with her gander (the best character here if you ask me). She meets a lot of people, from vagabonds to thieve ...more
I loved this book. The world (which kept reminding me of post-Cromwell England) was wonderfully detailed, with its multiple churches, forbidden learning, fantastically named characters, and that goose!
Mosca Mye and Eponymous Clent are great together. She's sharp-tongued and intelligent, and Clent's slippery self and word waterfalls are often hilarious.
Though Hardinge's text was sometimes a little dense, which slowed down the action every now and again, I loved all the colour of the setting and t ...more
Mosca Mye and Eponymous Clent are great together. She's sharp-tongued and intelligent, and Clent's slippery self and word waterfalls are often hilarious.
Though Hardinge's text was sometimes a little dense, which slowed down the action every now and again, I loved all the colour of the setting and t ...more
3.5 stars
I started making my way through Hardinge's books after reading Cuckoo Song and absolutely loving it. Fly By Night is Hardinge's first novel, and her way with words and imagery are evident here, with her prose able to carry my interest even as the story itself wavered for me here and there. In the end, I enjoyed this book, but it is not among my favorites. ...more
I started making my way through Hardinge's books after reading Cuckoo Song and absolutely loving it. Fly By Night is Hardinge's first novel, and her way with words and imagery are evident here, with her prose able to carry my interest even as the story itself wavered for me here and there. In the end, I enjoyed this book, but it is not among my favorites. ...more
Written with Hardinge' s usual poetic prose. This is her first novel and in some ways you can tell, my interest wavered at times.
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3.5 stars. I really wanted to love this more than I actually did.
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