Jala's Mask
Autor Mike Grinti, Rachel Grintien Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 noi 2014
For two hundred years, Jala's people have survived by raiding the mainland. By shaping the reefs around the Five-and-One Islands into magical ships, they can cross the ocean, take what they want, and disappear.
Or so they have always believed. On the night after Jala becomes queen, a tide of magical fog sweeps over the islands, carrying ships form the mainland. Inside are a desperate people, driven half-mad by sorcery and looking for revenge.
Now Jala--caught between her family's unending ambitions, the politics of the islands thrown into turmoil, and her unexpected love for the king--must find a way to save them all if she can.
But there are greater powers at work, and the politics of gods are more terrifying than she could have imagined. To save the Five-and-One Islands she may have to leave them behind.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781616149789
ISBN-10: 1616149787
Pagini: 285
Dimensiuni: 154 x 208 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Pyr
ISBN-10: 1616149787
Pagini: 285
Dimensiuni: 154 x 208 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Pyr
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Notă biografică
Mike and Rachel Grinti are a husband-and-wife writing team. They met at a writing workshop in 2002, though they didn't start writing together until a few years later. Rachel is a children's librarian. Mike fell in love with reading after he checked out "The Hobbit" from his school library and has been hooked on fantasy and science fiction ever since. When he's not writing or reading, he's probably playing video games and has a day job making them.
Recenzii
Praise for "Claws" (Chicken House, 2012)
"This middle-grade fantasy offers some intriguing elements as it hurtles toward an exciting, if abrupt, ending. ... Readers who persevere will find themselves caught up in the action and fascinated by the exquisitely imagined and decidedly different fairies....[this] intriguing debut will likely appeal to fantasy fanatics."
--"Kirkus Reviews"
"The Grintis endow this semiserious debut tale with both a motley pride of authentically blase stray cats and a menagerie of enjoyably creepy creatures from ratters (a sort of cross between oversize rats and reference librarians) to a set of blind, glamour-wielding faeries who enthrall children to be their eyes and, as it turns out, are the villains of the piece. The climactic rescue follows a nervous interview with a child-eating hag, visits to a wild faerie nightclub, and treks through not one but two spooky magic forests. Readers will happily accompany Emma on her quest and look forward to seeing what uses she will make of her burgeoning magical powers in future episodes."
--"Booklist"
" "
Praise for "Claws: "
"Readers...will find themselves caught up in the action and fascinated by the exquisitely imagined and decidedly different fairies....[This] intriguing debut will likely appeal to fantasy fanatics."
--"Kirkus Revi""ews"
"Readers will happily accompany Emma on her quest and look forward to seeing what uses she will make of her burgeoning magical powers in future episodes."
--"Booklist"
" "
"Mike and Rachel Grinti's "Jala's Mask" takes the coming-of-age fantasy to strange and wonderful new places. The setting is unlike any fantasy world we've seen; it is based on African and Polynesian history and folklore, is entirely believable, and is fascinating, fresh, and unique. The result is a story that unfolds at a quickening pace, full of quirky and unexpected turns with a diverse cast of terrific characters who grow and reveal themselves as morally complex creations."
--Clay and Susan Griffith, authors of the Vampire Empire trilogy
"This middle-grade fantasy offers some intriguing elements as it hurtles toward an exciting, if abrupt, ending. ... Readers who persevere will find themselves caught up in the action and fascinated by the exquisitely imagined and decidedly different fairies....[this] intriguing debut will likely appeal to fantasy fanatics."
--"Kirkus Reviews"
"The Grintis endow this semiserious debut tale with both a motley pride of authentically blase stray cats and a menagerie of enjoyably creepy creatures from ratters (a sort of cross between oversize rats and reference librarians) to a set of blind, glamour-wielding faeries who enthrall children to be their eyes and, as it turns out, are the villains of the piece. The climactic rescue follows a nervous interview with a child-eating hag, visits to a wild faerie nightclub, and treks through not one but two spooky magic forests. Readers will happily accompany Emma on her quest and look forward to seeing what uses she will make of her burgeoning magical powers in future episodes."
--"Booklist"
" "
Praise for "Claws: "
"Readers...will find themselves caught up in the action and fascinated by the exquisitely imagined and decidedly different fairies....[This] intriguing debut will likely appeal to fantasy fanatics."
--"Kirkus Revi""ews"
"Readers will happily accompany Emma on her quest and look forward to seeing what uses she will make of her burgeoning magical powers in future episodes."
--"Booklist"
" "
"Mike and Rachel Grinti's "Jala's Mask" takes the coming-of-age fantasy to strange and wonderful new places. The setting is unlike any fantasy world we've seen; it is based on African and Polynesian history and folklore, is entirely believable, and is fascinating, fresh, and unique. The result is a story that unfolds at a quickening pace, full of quirky and unexpected turns with a diverse cast of terrific characters who grow and reveal themselves as morally complex creations."
--Clay and Susan Griffith, authors of the Vampire Empire trilogy
Descriere
To save her people, she must steal the face of a god.
For two hundred years, Jala's people have survived by raiding the mainland. By shaping the reefs around the Five-and-One Islands into magical ships, they can cross the ocean, take what they want, and disappear.
Or so they have always believed. On the night after Jala becomes queen, a tide of magical fog sweeps over the islands, carrying ships form the mainland. Inside are a desperate people, driven half-mad by sorcery and looking for revenge.
Now Jala--caught between her family's unending ambitions, the politics of the islands thrown into turmoil, and her unexpected love for the king--must find a way to save them all if she can.
But there are greater powers at work, and the politics of gods are more terrifying than she could have imagined. To save the Five-and-One Islands she may have to leave them behind.
For two hundred years, Jala's people have survived by raiding the mainland. By shaping the reefs around the Five-and-One Islands into magical ships, they can cross the ocean, take what they want, and disappear.
Or so they have always believed. On the night after Jala becomes queen, a tide of magical fog sweeps over the islands, carrying ships form the mainland. Inside are a desperate people, driven half-mad by sorcery and looking for revenge.
Now Jala--caught between her family's unending ambitions, the politics of the islands thrown into turmoil, and her unexpected love for the king--must find a way to save them all if she can.
But there are greater powers at work, and the politics of gods are more terrifying than she could have imagined. To save the Five-and-One Islands she may have to leave them behind.