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matt_doyleFly By Night by Frances Hardinge is my latest read, and honestly, it may instantly catapult itself into my top twenty favorites. In a secondary world fantasy setting reminiscent of seventeenth-century England, complete with violent religious conflict, a young literate girl and an angry goose save the life of a loquacious con-man and set about accidentally altering the political climate of the local city-state.
The wordplay, the rich sense of place, the determination of the heroine (and the plight of her eyebrows), the deftness of the intrigue and mystery, the thoughtful whimsicality (and deadly seriousness) of the religion... all of them left me utterly charmed.
Fortunately for me, there is a sequel.
The wordplay, the rich sense of place, the determination of the heroine (and the plight of her eyebrows), the deftness of the intrigue and mystery, the thoughtful whimsicality (and deadly seriousness) of the religion... all of them left me utterly charmed.
Fortunately for me, there is a sequel.
