A Hunger of Thorns
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- USD 6.99
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- USD 6.99
Descripción editorial
Be swept away by a lush, witchy tale about forbidden magic and missing girls who don't need handsome princes to rescue them. Perfect for fans of The Hazel Wood.
Maude is the daughter of witches. She spent her childhood running wild with her best friend, Odette, weaving stories of girls who slayed dragons and saved princes. Then Maude grew up and lost her magic—and her best friend.
These days, magic is toothless, reduced to glamour patches and psychic energy drinks found in supermarkets and shopping malls. Odette has always hungered for forbidden, dangerous magic, and two weeks ago she went searching for it. Now she’s missing, and everyone says she’s dead. Everyone except Maude.
Storytelling has always been Maude’s gift, so she knows all about girls who get lost in the woods. She’s sure she can find Odette inside the ruins of Sicklehurst, an abandoned power plant built over an ancient magical forest—a place nobody else seems to remember is there. The danger is, no one knows what remains inside Sicklehurst, either. And every good story is sure to have a monster.
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In the fictional country of Anglyon, magic has been tamed into cheap, government-approved products: glamours hide acne, and enchanted tea bags never oversteep. Though her ancestors were all powerful witches, and most people retain some innate abilities, 16-year-old Maude Jenkins's magic mysteriously dried up four years ago, leaving her with what she believes is an inconsequential gift for storytelling. But when her former best friend Odette goes missing while searching for forbidden magic near an abandoned power plant that only Maude seems to remember exists, Maude realizes that her stories might be prophecies. To pursue Odette, Maude pieces together the connections between the adventure tales she spun for Odette as children, the stories that Maude tells herself about her own banal life, and the ancient magical lore her mother used to share. Flashbacks to the teens' childhood, peppered throughout, reveal the convoluted history of their friendship, while a slow unraveling imparts sustained mystery and intrigue. Wilkinson offers plenty of tantalizing surprises in this tangled volume featuring complicated familial connections, dangerous secrets, and even more perilous obsessions. One of Maude's grandmothers cues as Korean; Odette reads as white. Ages 14–up.
