Plain Kate
A Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens book. Hope will break the heart better than any sorrow. Erin Bow, Plain Kate...
A knife-sharp debut novel that leaves its mark.Plain Kate lives in a world of superstitions and curses, where a song can heal a wound and a shadow can work deep magic. When Kate's village falls on hard times - crops fail, and even Kate's father falls victim to a deadly fever - the townspeople look for someone to blame, and their eyes fall on Kate.Enter Linay, a stranger with a proposition: In exchange for her shadow, he'll give Kate the means to escape the town that seems set to burn her, and what's more, he'll grant her heart's wish. It's a chance for her to start over, to find a home, a family, a place to belong. But Kate soon realizes that she can't live shadowless forever -- and that Linay's designs are darker than she ever dreamed.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 320 pages
- ISBN: 9780545166652 / 545166659
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At night the fog was thick and full of light, and sometimes voices. Erin Bow, Plain Kate // Your shadow is bought and paid for, and your death will not remit that payment. You can go shadowless into the shadowless world, and your death will only be one last dark thing on my long dark road. It will hurt me but I do not care. It is all but over. Erin Bow, Plain Kate // They hurried when they could, and dozed when they had to, hiding in tangles of bloodtwig and heartsease at the edge of the road. Erin Bow, Plain Kate //
One of the main reasons I finished this book is because, happily, Id won it in a Goodreads giveaway. So, I felt I should finish it so that I could write a full and honest review.I think the other reason I felt compelled to finish this book was because I hoped that, by the end, Id learn what the book was about. Unfortunately, I dont... A beautifully written dark fairy tale featuring a strong heroine and an absolutely lovable cat sidekick.Set in a world reminiscent of medieval Russia, Wood Angel(aka Plain Kate for the US readers), ranks among my favourite reads this year so far. It is not a pleasant comfort read, but more a dark type of fairy tale with wonderfully... fans of dark fairy tales with very young protgonists
