Echo North
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- USD 9.99
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- USD 9.99
Publisher Description
"Epic and engrossing. Magic pulsates through every page.” —Kirkus, starred review
"...a compelling, satisfying romantic adventure with metafictional undertones.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“A marvelous, enchanting tale about the power of love and stories.”
—Rosamund Hodge, New York Times bestselling author of Cruel Beauty
"...beautifully written retelling..." - School Library Journal
Echo Alkaev’s safe and carefully structured world falls apart when her father leaves for the city and mysteriously disappears. Believing he is lost forever, Echo is shocked to find him half-frozen in the winter forest six months later, guarded by a strange talking wolf—the same creature who attacked her as a child. The wolf presents Echo with an ultimatum: if she lives with him for one year, he will ensure her father makes it home safely. But there is more to the wolf than Echo realizes.
In his enchanted house beneath a mountain, each room must be sewn together to keep the home from unraveling, and something new and dark and strange lies behind every door. When centuries-old secrets unfold, Echo discovers a magical library full of books- turned-mirrors, and a young man named Hal who is trapped inside of them. As the year ticks by, the rooms begin to disappear and Echo must solve the mystery of the wolf’s enchantment before her time is up otherwise Echo, the wolf, and Hal will be lost forever.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this reimagining of "East of the Sun, West of the Moon," a young woman ostracized for the facial scars she received from a wolf attack finds new purpose when she bargains with that same wolf to save her father. Echo Alkaev must spend one year with the wolf in his mysterious "house under the mountain," whose myriad rooms, packed with wonders and terrors, shift at random and require constant maintenance lest they vanish. Following the tale's tradition, Echo grows close to the wolf over the course of the year; less predictably, she finds friends, such as lovely princess Mokosh and the charming Hal, while delving into the stories contained within the library's enchanted mirrors. But in her efforts to save the wolf from falling prey to the sorceress who cursed him, Echo discovers complicated depths to their shared history and the beast's enchantment. Meyer (Beneath the Haunting Sea) refreshes the familiar framework with additional fairy tale elements "Cupid and Psyche," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Tam Lin" among them producing a compelling, satisfying romantic adventure with metafictional undertones. Ages 14 up.)
