"Why don't they like me?" I whispered, getting my arms up, feeling around for his shoulder. "What's wrong with me? I never did anything to anyone."
Fisher was quiet for a second and when he answered, he sounded strange.
"It's not your fault," he said. "They're just nervous about how your eyes are sewed shut."
Hardcover, 341 pages
Published August 14th 2014 by Razorbill
A girl trapped in a canning cellar for 10 years, wrapped down by willow roots with her eyes sewn shut? Hell yes this is my kind of book. When the reckoning started, Clementine was trapped down here for an unknown reason. Was it to keep her craft buried? Or to keep her away from someone else? Was she the reason the reckoning started? Clementine re-enters the world where only her cousin Shiny seems to remember her, while everyone else seems indifferent or downright frightened of her. Shiny instantly takes Clementine under her wing and dresses her, cleans her, gives her a place to stay and how does Clementine repay her? She goes and stalks this Fisher guy. Eric (AKA Fisher) saves her like some kind of badass hero and then treats her like shit until he decides he finally likes her, after she's pined after him and followed him around and, oh yah, sucked the poison out of his body with her BARE HANDS after a fight with some hell hounds in the hollow. Basically, Fisher is going out there, for some unknown reason, and little lovelorn Clementine follows her pretty little selfish knight out there, where creepy things full of witchcraft and evil live. This is where the fiends are, the people so full of craft that they just live in the hollow and turn into creepy evil animal people. So much potential.
See, Clementine, Shiny, Fisher and Mae (Shiny's adorable friend) all have the craft. They each have a type of "humor" (?) like fire, dirt, air and light. But they're missing the fifth point to their star, water. And crazy stuff starts happening again. The reckoning is coming back to their little town. But then the story loses its steam.
I don't wanna ruin the ending for you guys because, yeah I enjoyed it and I want you guys to read it, but it could have been SO much better. But Brenna Yovanoff is great author and I am falling in love with her books. This one, though, I'd have to give 3 1/2 stars. With just a tiny bit more character development it would have been downright fantastic. I recommend it :)
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