The Black Isle The Black Isle

The Black Isle

    • 3.9 • 42 Ratings
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Publisher Description

This “ambitious, supernatural coming-of-age story” (The LA Times) is a sweeping tale of ghosts in the modern world, and one woman's struggle to create her own destiny.

There are ghosts on the Black Isle.
Ghosts that no one can see.
No one...except Cassandra.

Uprooted from Shanghai with her father and twin brother, young Cassandra finds the Black Isle's bustling, immigrant-filled seaport, swampy jungle, and grand rubber plantations a sharp contrast to the city of her childhood. And she soon makes another discovery: the Black Isle is swarming with ghosts.

Haunted and lonely, Cassandra at first tries to ignore her ability to see the restless apparitions that drift down the street and crouch in cold corners at school. Yet despite her struggles with these spirits, Cassandra comes to love her troubled new home. And soon, she attracts the notice of a dangerously charismatic man.

Even as she becomes a fearless young woman, the Isle's dark forces won't let her go. War is looming, and Cassandra wonders if her unique gift might be her beloved island's only chance for salvation . . .

Taking readers from the 1920s, through the Japanese occupation during WWII, to the Isle's radical transformation into a gleaming cosmopolitan city, The Black Isle is a sweeping epic--a deeply imagined, fiercely original tale from a vibrant new voice in fiction.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2012
July 3
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
480
Pages
PUBLISHER
Grand Central Publishing
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
2.9
MB

Customer Reviews

Dede w/3 ,

The black isle

Sorry it ended, loved the mystery, the time, the perspective. Glad I can get back to living.

GiorgieA ,

a 3.5 from me.

it took me ages to finish this book! but i am glad i forced myself to finish it. finally finished 3/4 of the book in the span of a few days after leaving it for months! this story had a very draggy beginning but quite an exciting and intriguing read by the time you reach the last page.

Phoebe Lee ,

Black Isle

Not a bad book. Was easy to put down and pick right back up,

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