Frances Hardinge
Hardcover | Pages: 416 pages Rating: 4.03 | 5100 Users | 877 Reviews
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| Title | : | A Skinful of Shadows |
| Author | : | Frances Hardinge |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 416 pages |
| Published | : | October 17th 2017 by Amulet Books (first published September 2017) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction. Paranormal |
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This is the story of a bear-hearted girl . . . Sometimes, when a person dies, their spirit goes looking for somewhere to hide. Some people have space within them, perfect for hiding. Twelve-year-old Makepeace has learned to defend herself from the ghosts which try to possess her in the night, desperate for refuge, but one day a dreadful event causes her to drop her guard. And now there's a spirit inside her. The spirit is wild, brutish and strong, and it may be her only defence when she is sent to live with her father's rich and powerful ancestors. There is talk of civil war, and they need people like her to protect their dark and terrible family secret. But as she plans her escape and heads out into a country torn apart by war, Makepeace must decide which is worse: possession – or death.Identify Books Concering A Skinful of Shadows
| Original Title: | A Skinful of Shadows |
| ISBN: | 1419725726 (ISBN13: 9781419725722) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Book (2018), Waterstones Book of the Year Nominee (2017), Carnegie Medal Nominee (2019), Lodestar Award Nominee (2018) |
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Ratings: 4.03 From 5100 Users | 877 ReviewsCriticize Containing Books A Skinful of Shadows
"There was a little girl lost in the woods, who was chased by a wolf. She ran and ran until her feet were torn, but she knew that the wolf had her scent and was still coming after her. In the end she had to make a choice. She could keep on running and hiding and running forever, or she could stop and sharpen a stick to defend herself. What do you think was the right decision, Makepeace?Makepeace could tell that this was not just a story, and that the answer mattered a great deal.Can you fight aAhoy there mateys! I read the author's book, the lie tree, at the beginning of the year as me first 19 in 2019 book. That one was set in 1860 and I liked it enough that I wanted to try another of her books. This book be set in the 1650s prior to the English civil war. The author definitely knows how to pick interesting time periods and write unusual world building. The main character Makepeace has a problem with ghosts trying to possess her. I loved her and I loved reading about her weird
I was expecting to enjoy the book more than I actually did :( Nonetheless, I might give it another chance again in the future!
The dead are often easier praised than the living.Folk look for things far and wide, but seldom close. This story takes place during the English Civil War (ca. 1640 1643) so it takes place roughly 200 years prior to the first novel I read by this author and thus shows quite a different kind of England. The two books are independent of one another. However, they show that the author is good at any historic setting. Battlefields, alleys in Oxford and old manors come to life equally in this tale
Ms Hardinge was on my radar for a very long time, and finally managed to read her. Bad thing I never knew that it was a follow up but the good thing was I never realized before or after reading it that it was a follow-up to The Lie Tree. Only after reading other reviews I came to know of this fact. But I guess it does not matter because I enjoyed this book and never felt that it had some references from some other book.Anyways, coming back to the book I never thought this would be such a dark
I loved The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge, and had high hopes for her next offering. I wasn't disappointed. This was the perfect blend of history, magical realism and dark fantasy. Set in the early days of the English Civil War, Makepeace has been raised by her mother to fear and fight off the dead who want to inhabit her body. When events force her to leave her home and live with her powerful father's family, Makepeace must confront the shadows that lurk in the dark and learn more about her
A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge is the follow-up to her 2015 book The Lie Tree. However, Shadows is set just prior to the English civil war in the 1650s era and utilizes as a background the gaining momentum of that war. The seventeenth century is not a common time period in which to set a YA book.The book gives us castles, hungry soldiers, plagues, and suspicious townsfolk. Did I mention it also gives us ghosts? Oh yes, a number of ghosts. One of the great aspects of the story is that
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