Vincent, a famed and brilliant glamourist, comes to town to create a magical mural for the local nobility. But excitement swirls through the small village when the enigmatic Mr.
At 28, plain Jane Ellsworth is mostly resigned to being a spinster despite being a gifted glamourist, she knows that men ignore her whenever her beautiful sister Melody is around. This Austen-inspired fantasy novel is set in a Regency-era England where ladies are expected to master magic, aka “glamour,” as one of their genteel accomplishments. Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal - A very silly book indeed, but likely to appeal to teenage girls who are just discovering historical fiction. But when Karou encounters the fiery-eyed, super-sexy angel Akiva in a Marrakesh street market, she may not like the answers he has about her past… and her destiny. She’s also plagued by the feeling that she’s forgotten something essential about her past. But she resents her lowly status and inability to have a normal life. Apprenticed to the chimera Brimstone as a young child, Karou has grown into his errand-girl: he buys teeth of all kinds, no questions asked, and pays in wishes.
What they don’t realize is that the creatures are real. She’s also a gifted artist, filling dozens of sketchbooks with the ongoing adventures of a group of monstrous mythical creatures - chimeras - which her classmates read as avidly as a comic book. An outsider even among the art-school crowd, her few friends have learned to accept her eccentricities: her fluency in random languages, her evasiveness, her habit of disappearing for days and returning exhausted and covered in bruises. So, let us guess: you devoured Kerstin Gier’s bestselling time-travel YA novel, Ruby Red, and now you need something to tide you over until the sequel, Sapphire Blue, comes out on October 30? Not to worry! Here’s a summer’s worth of delightful, dark, and fantastical books like Ruby Red with plenty of magic, strong female protagonists, and the occasional talking animal.ĭaughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor - Karou is a 17-year-old art student in Prague.
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