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If anyone knows how to spin a story, it's Hardinge. While this started off a bit slow for me, I found myself returning back to sections I read through too quickly and realizing that I missed something that was actually perfectly placed. This reminded me in both mood and story to Jonathan Auxier's The Night Gardener and also Hardinge's Cuckoo Song, two of my favorites.
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I loved this book's solid, stingy, mean, clever, brave, fierce, and loyal protagonist. Frances Hardinge never disappoints. I adore her rich, figurative language, dark story lines, and complex characters and relationships. It's awesome to hear this book won the Costa!
Faith, the embodiment of her name when it comes to her absolute conviction in and fealty to her father's genius and moral certitude, is mid-travel when the reader meets her. She's a weary plain Jane character, responsible for taming ...more
Faith, the embodiment of her name when it comes to her absolute conviction in and fealty to her father's genius and moral certitude, is mid-travel when the reader meets her. She's a weary plain Jane character, responsible for taming ...more
THE LIE TREE by Frances Hardinge is a heart-pounding historical mystery.
Set in the nineteenth century, Faith discovers a connection between a strange tree and the mystery of her father’s death. She soon discovers that this magical tree feeds on lies, but dispenses the truth through its hallucinogenic fruit. This complex, edge-of-your-seat fantasy will keep readers guessing until the very end.
Librarians will find that fans of Frances Hardinge will be thrilled with her latest historical fantasy. W ...more
Set in the nineteenth century, Faith discovers a connection between a strange tree and the mystery of her father’s death. She soon discovers that this magical tree feeds on lies, but dispenses the truth through its hallucinogenic fruit. This complex, edge-of-your-seat fantasy will keep readers guessing until the very end.
Librarians will find that fans of Frances Hardinge will be thrilled with her latest historical fantasy. W ...more
This book was 400+ pages long. It has six starred reviews. It is one of the clear favorites to win the Printz. It is not my pick. It is also pretty rare that I say the middle of a book is the strongest part, but that is how I feel with this one. The pacing was very rough for me. Hardinge takes so long to set up family dynamics, the Victorian world, attitudes toward women...I had read over 30% of the book and it was just an infuriating commentary on the Victorian attitudes toward women. The heart
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May 30, 2016
traci
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Mallory
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Amy
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Tracy
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Marianne
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