The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Enter a wicked cool fantasy world of witches and their assassins, where a group of renegades battle to capture the Heart of the Coven.
“A unique, gripping, engaging book by a voice that the genre has been waiting for.” — Seanan McGuire, author of the Wayward Children series
Even teenage assassins have dreams.
Eli isn’t just a teenage girl — she’s a made-thing the witches created to hunt down ghosts in the human world. Trained to kill with her seven living blades, Eli is a flawless machine, a deadly assassin. But when an assignment goes wrong, Eli starts to question everything she was taught about both worlds, the Coven, and her tyrannical witch-mother.
Terrified that she’ll be unmade for her mistake, Eli seeks refuge with a group of human and witch renegades. To earn her place, she must prove herself by capturing the Heart of the Coven. With the help of two humans and a girl who smells like the sea, Eli is going to get answers — and earn her freedom.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Jerreat-Poole's imaginative fantasy debut, teenager Eli masquerades as a white human girl, but is in fact a deadly assassin whose form was crafted by a witch out of "beetle shells and cranberries and uncaring function." Eli's task is to hunt down and kill ghosts who still roam the human world in illusory bodies, but when a job goes horrifyingly wrong, she realizes that someone chose a live person, not a ghost in disguise, for her mark. No longer able to trust her witch mother, or the Coven that rules her city, Eli allies with a renegade faction of diverse witches whose members include a gay Vietnamese Canadian character and a brown-skinned nonbinary individual. The rebels aim to destabilize the Coven, which intends to close the all-important portal between the human and magical worlds; though Eli agrees to assist the rebels, the decision may cost her her life. The novel's narrative structure relies upon confusing temporal shifts, producing a somewhat disjointed plotline, and frequently labored prose, but inventive worldbuilding and intriguing characters complement the fantastical setting. Ages 15 up.
