Micole's review
Skin Hunger (A Resurrection of Magic)
by Kathleen Duey
Micole's review
Skin Hunger (A Resurrection of Magic) by Kathleen Duey
Micole's review
rating:
bookshelves:
-brooklyn,
sff,
ya
Parallel timelines, centuries apart: Sadima, who can communicate mentally with animals, becomes the servant of two would-be mages, Franklin and Somiss, who are attempting to rediscover the magic that may have led to a world-changing holocaust or war. Centuries later, Hahp, despised by his nouveau riche father, is deposited in the wizards' school. The headmaster, Somiss, tells the incoming class of eleven that only one or none of them will graduate a wizard, and the school's "courses" quickly prove a lesson in cruelty: the boys are made to starve until and unless they can produce food by magic, and they are all warned against helping each other, although some--especially Hahp and his streetwise roommate Gerrard--manage to sneak each other tiny, terrifying bits of unacknowledged and unacknowledgeable help.
The prose is sometimes clunky and Duey is too fond of em-dashes, but the characterization and the growing feeling of entrapment across both storylines have real force. ...more
The prose is sometimes clunky and Duey is too fond of em-dashes, but the characterization and the growing feeling of entrapment across both storylines have real force. ...more
