Lucena in the House of Madgrin
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Lucena Clarian Ashmoor has never hatched a feathered serpent from an egg. She has never befriended a sombulus—a monster that looks like a giant spider, eats darkness, and likes reading books. She has never ridden a magic horse. She has spent all her life with relatives who would prefer she were elsewhere, and so sent her away to the nastiest school imaginable. There she has been bullied, and told so many times that she was dumb and fat and useless that she almost came to believe it. She has never been popular, and never done anything remotely heroic.
All this changes the night a vampire attacks her school and Lucena is tumbled into a world wider, darker, more magical and more mysterious than any she could have imagined. Here she will find the forgotten egg, meet the shade-eating spider, ride the black mare with coal-fire eyes, fight vampires, dance with fairies, and find—in time—that she might be a hero after all.
Customer Reviews
A book that makes life better
This is the sort of book that makes life better while you are reading it because it is so good. The characters spring to life and you feel like you are in the story with them. Not only are the characters, story, and setting truly wonderful, but the book also has incredible illustrations in each chapter. The fact that Goldeen Ogawa drew the illustrations herself ties them to the story in the most amazing way.
You know that feeling when something really fun and exciting is happening, like your favorite sports team is in the playoffs, or you are going on vacation, and then it comes to an end and you are happy that it happened but a bit sad to return to your normal life? That’s exactly the feeling with Lucena in the House of Madgrin. Your life will be richer and more interesting for having read this story. I can’t wait to read her next book!