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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting book with two alternating stories that at first appear unrelated, but then start to be connected to each other. One story is about a girl, Sadima, whose mother dies when she is born. She is raised by her father and older brother on a farm, very poor and isolated from the world. Eventuall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9627784">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[While the parallel stories are compelling, the world is fascinating, and the characters complex, I just didn't click with either of the main characters, and that took the story down a notch for me.  Still, it's a strong book with a cliff-hanger of an ending and lots of unresolved bits and pieces tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9619238">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really wish the second book in this series was already out. I hate having to wait!! <br/><br/>The book follows two different characters, Sadima and Hahp, who live in different time periods but whose stories are intertwined. Sadima's world is one almost devoid of magic; the kings banished and kil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14454478">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an odd book.<br/><br/>Skin Hunger is the story of two people, Sadima a young woman in search of love and acceptance for herself and the magical gift she holds secret, and Hahp, a teenage boy who has been sent to the wizard academy against his will. Interestingly, Sadima's story is told in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55543018">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Told as stand-alone stories, the tales of Sadima and Hahp might have proved dull, but Duey alternates between narratives each chapter. Instead of disrupting the flow of the novel, Duey actually cleverly distributes the pacing and tension. The world is realised without making the story overcomplex an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75300845">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[DO NOT READ THIS BOOK.<br/><br/>YET.<br/><br/>For those of you who don't know, I have a rule that I neither buy, check out, borrow or otherwise read books whose sequels have not been published.  I just get too darn impatient for the continuation of the series.<br/><br/>Well, I did not realize ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47202053">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Original review below- stet. Re-read because I have the sequel in my hands.<br/><br/>Very strong fantasy. I loved Duey's alternate take on wizard school. Her writing puts me in mind of Le Guin- spare, lean and powerful. What she doesn't say is easily as important as what she does. The world is bel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18734496">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As many other reviewers have said, it's a well-written book, but for some reason I didn't find myself being drawn in to the world Duey creates. Initially, I was thrown off by the whole &quot;FIRST IN A SERIES!&quot; hype on the book cover; it smacks more of jumping on the trend of series books, rath...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78943033">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliant! Finally a smart, complex, character-driven fantasy. Tracks the lives of two characters living generations apart and slowly reveals how their lives are entwined. This book is the first in a proposed trilogy and leaves lots unanswered. Normally this would annoy me, but the growth of the cha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4254549">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Sadima lives in a world where magic has been banned, leaving poor villagers prey to fakes and charlatans. A &quot;magician&quot; stole her family's few valuables and left Sadima's mother to die on the day Sadima was born. But vestiges of magic are hidden in old rhymes and hearth tales and in people like Sadima, who conceals her silent communication with animals for fear of rejection and ridicule. When rumors of her gift reach Somiss, a young nobleman obsessed with restoring magic, he sends Franklin, his lifelong servant, to find her. Sadima's joy at sharing her secret becomes love for the man she shares it with. But Franklin's irrevocable bond to the brilliant and dangerous Somiss traps her, too, and she faces a heartbreaking decision.<p>Centuries later magic has been restored, but it is available only to the wealthy and is strictly controlled by wizards within a sequestered academy of magic. Hahp, the expendable second son of a rich merchant, is forced into the academy and finds himself paired with Gerrard, a peasant boy inexplicably admitted with nine sons of privilege and wealth. Only one of the ten students will graduate -- and the first academic requirement is survival.<p>Sadima's and Hahp's worlds are separated by generations, but their lives are connected in surprising and powerful ways in this brilliant first book of Kathleen Duey's dark, complex, and completely compelling trilogy.<p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Two tales are woven here.  In the first, Sadima is raised in a time when magic is feared and distrusted, so she learns to hide her ability to speak with animals – but not before stories of her are heard in the city, and a young man (Franklin) travels the long distance to meet her.  Several years l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72985237">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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