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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine,
This week I'm waiting on…
By Merrie Haskell
Release date: May 27, 2014
Published by Katherine Tegen Books
When Sand wakes
up alone in a long-abandoned castle, he has no idea how he got there. The
stories all said the place was ruined by an earthquake, and Sand did not expect
to find everything inside-from dishes to candles to apples-torn in half or
slashed to bits. Nothing lives here and nothing grows, except the vicious,
thorny bramble that prevents Sand from leaving. Why wasn't this in the stories?
To survive,
Sand does what he knows best-he fires up the castle's forge to mend what he
needs to live. But the things he fixes work somehow better than they ought to.
Is there magic in the mending, granted by the saints who once guarded this
place?
Unexpectedly, Sand finds the lost heir, Perrotte, a girl who shares the
castle's astonishing secrets and dark history. Putting together the pieces-of
stone and iron, and of a broken life-is harder than Sand ever imagined, but
it's the only way to gain their freedom, even with the help of the guardian
saints.
With gorgeous
language and breathtaking magic, Merrie Haskell's The Castle Behind Thorns
tells of the power of memory and story, forgiveness and strength, and the true
gifts of craft and imagination.
As someone who found Merrie Haskell's previous fairytale retellings charming and delightful, I'm really looking forward to this release.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Waiting on Wednesday: The Castle Behind Thorns
Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine,
This week I'm waiting on…
By Merrie Haskell
Release date: May 27, 2014
Published by Katherine Tegen Books
When Sand wakes
up alone in a long-abandoned castle, he has no idea how he got there. The
stories all said the place was ruined by an earthquake, and Sand did not expect
to find everything inside-from dishes to candles to apples-torn in half or
slashed to bits. Nothing lives here and nothing grows, except the vicious,
thorny bramble that prevents Sand from leaving. Why wasn't this in the stories?
To survive,
Sand does what he knows best-he fires up the castle's forge to mend what he
needs to live. But the things he fixes work somehow better than they ought to.
Is there magic in the mending, granted by the saints who once guarded this
place?
Unexpectedly, Sand finds the lost heir, Perrotte, a girl who shares the
castle's astonishing secrets and dark history. Putting together the pieces-of
stone and iron, and of a broken life-is harder than Sand ever imagined, but
it's the only way to gain their freedom, even with the help of the guardian
saints.
With gorgeous
language and breathtaking magic, Merrie Haskell's The Castle Behind Thorns
tells of the power of memory and story, forgiveness and strength, and the true
gifts of craft and imagination.
As someone who found Merrie Haskell's previous fairytale retellings charming and delightful, I'm really looking forward to this release.
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