The story.AMAZING! The character building as well as the world building was perfect. The first couple pages sucked me right in, I was hooked! I was procrastinating on writing a paper for class and I was sick of reading depressing books for my Young Adult Literature course, so I picked ALD up to read. I was ecstatic! How often does that really happen?! I read the description of the book and thought "Well, it might be interesting" but put it aside while I read other stuff for school.įast forward to last week.
He asked if I would be interested in reading his book he just published because I enjoyed The Golden Compass. A few months back I was contacted by the Author through the Goodreads mail system. I am going to be very frank with this review. When more children begin to disappear, suspicions are raised and an unlikely search party is formed to find Skyla in the hopes that they aren't already too late. But when her mother's past catches up with them both, Skyla finds she must flee out of the city and into a world still recovering from a second Dark Age, a world of adults with secrets only she can see.For a stranger has recently moved into Bollingbrook, a man some call the Pope of the South, a witch hunter to some and a hero to others. She can see people's fears, desires, their past sins-all as swimming, living creatures.Her mother has never told her the real reasons why they must remain hidden, never explained the true dangers that exist outside the city walls. As one of the Gutter District's nameless destitute, it has gone undiscovered that she has a unique talent: when Skyla looks at a person's shadow she sees through it and into another world. Skyla has lived secretly within the city walls of Bollingbrook for eleven years, playing among the airship factories and trainyards.
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