A moonlit city with shadows across an open grave "yawning like an open throat..." A woman with a lamp in her hand, hooded against the wind with shovelfuls of earth being thrown about her... Shadowcry, by Jenna Burtenshaw, snatches the reader on Page 1 of the prologue with a spine-tingler of a setting. The Night of Souls -- when the veil between the living and the dead is thinnest -- is only days away. Wardens have been sent by the High Council to harvest citizens for battle. They are kidnapping innocent citizens and searching for one of the Skilled. It's Kate Winters, 15, who has just resurrected a blackbird without meaning to -- or knowing that she could -- and now the wardens are after her.
Sit by the fire. Forget the chores. You'll want to know what happens to Kate when she's taken to the graveyard city of Fume and its many secret tunnels and underground villages.
Highly recommended.
--GSouth
Sit by the fire. Forget the chores. You'll want to know what happens to Kate when she's taken to the graveyard city of Fume and its many secret tunnels and underground villages.
Highly recommended.
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