Juliet Marillier
Knopf
Pub Date: September 11, 2012
Veteran writer Marillier begins a new series with Shadowfell, being released as children's fiction. While the narrator's voice tilts toward children, the story is perfectly acceptable as teen or adult reading. Good crossover novel.
What if you were an orphan hunted for a skill you were born with? What if you had to stay on the run in order to survive? What if you discovered you were being tested without knowing whether you would really measure up? And what if you found a friend in the unlikliest of places? Would you ever be able to trust that person? And what if your skills could both save an entire land but harm the most fragile who live there?
These are the questions faced by our narrator, Neryn, a young girl struggling to reach a far-off place named Shadowfell, a place rumored to help her kind. It's a journey that keeps us moving through a rough, agrarian land followed by a bit of a cliffhanger ending that will leave the reader wondering how soon the sequel will follow. Has a little bit of a "Snow White and the Huntsman" vibe.
A thumbs up read.
(And a thank you to NetGalley for the digital ARC!) NetGalley rocks!
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