A Consuming Fire
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
“Achingly lovely and luminous…left me completely enthralled.” —Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows
Uprooted meets The Grace Year in this dark young adult fantasy of love and vengeance following a girl who vows to kill a god after her sister is unjustly slain by his hand “that will appeal to readers of Leigh Bardugo and Holly Black” (School Library Journal).
Weatherell girls aren’t supposed to die.
Once every eighteen years, the isolated forest village of Weatherell is asked to send one girl to the god of the mountain to give a sacrifice before returning home. Twins Anya and Ilva Astraea are raised with this destiny in mind, and when their time comes, spirited Ilva volunteers to go. Her devoted sister Anya is left at home to pray for Ilva’s safe return. But Anya’s prayers are denied.
With her sister dead, Anya volunteers to make a journey of her own to visit the god of the mountain. But unlike her sister, sacrifice is the furthest thing from Anya’s mind. Anya has no intention of giving anything more to the god, or of letting any other girl do so ever again. Anya Astraea has not set out to placate a god. She’s set out to kill one.
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A grief-stricken teen seeks vengeance against a god for her sibling's unjust death in this fury-laced tale of sacrifice and defiance by Weymouth (A Rush of Wings), set in an alternate historical Britain. Every 18 years, the landlocked forest town of Weatherell must select one teen girl to offer some aspect of themselves, such as their hands or their memory, to appease the mountain god who watches over the island of Albion. But when Anya's twin, Ilva, is chosen, and the god denounces her as unworthy, she returns home seemingly unharmed, only to mysteriously die in Anya's arms. After Anya promises her village that she will go as a replacement, she secretly vows to slay the god. Accompanied by a capricious shape-shifting thief, Anya makes the arduous journey across Albion, realizing that her isolated upbringing hasn't prepared her for the complexity of the larger world, or the true nature behind the god's bargain. Anya's righteous anger is palpable, and her evolution from sheltered small-town girl to determined god killer is exquisitely rendered. Utilizing lyrical language, memorable characters, and a romantic undertone, Weymouth crafts a meditative fantasy worth savoring. Characters cue as white. Ages 14–up.
