1/12/2024 0 Comments Starless night book cover![]() It was amazing to see those represented consistently. ![]() There were also some mental health things, like depression and anxiety, brought up. There was rep in all of the siblings - Irene being a trans girl and Violet being nonbinary, plus some of them using labels like demisexual, asexual, aromantic, pansexual, etc. This book was so diverse for having a cast of about nine or ten characters. I loved the way she developed over the course of the book from an obedient, if not somewhat still willful, girl and protective older sister into someone who was still willful and protective but much darker and more hardened.Īdding onto the characters, the representation was amazing. I loved her personality, her stubbornness and intelligence and the way she always did what she thought was best to protect her siblings. It caught the intensity and secrets of the lake house.Īdding to that, the characters were developed so well. It conveyed Derry’s narration clearly, providing a perfect insight into her emotions and character, but it also managed to capture everything that was happening. I loved just being able to feel things between the lines. The book built up so beautifully with that, Derry’s perspective growing more and more tense and secretive and desperate as it progressed. There was this clear tension, this underlying feeling of something that wasn’t quite right, that slowly intensified over the story. I loved the air of the lake house, the banter between siblings, the aesthetic that the forest and the magic brought to it. When Jane, one of Derry’s siblings goes missing, the only place she could possibly be is the forest - where Jane and Derry recently had an incident that ended in blood. They are raised in a remote lake house surrounded by woods. Frank hides them away from the outside world, training them so they can control their powers. The plot follows Derry, a teenage girl with supernatural abilities and eight adopted siblings, all of them being raised by Frank. Also, I got denied for an ARC so I did need it in some form. You can’t not immediately need that on your shelf. It has a powerful fat girl on it and a gorgeous nighttime aesthetic. I bought this book before I read it and I regret nothing. And that just might be the most dangerous thing of all. But saving her siblings from the forest and from Frank might mean embracing the darkness. and so does the darkness inside her, the viciousness she wants to pretend doesn’t exist. Even if that means returning to the forest that has started calling to Derry in her missing siblings’ voices.Īs Derry spends more time amidst the trees, her magic grows more powerful. Derry will risk anything to protect the family she has left. When another sibling goes missing and Frank’s true colors start to show, feeling safe is no longer an option. Jane and Derry swore to each other that they’d never go into the forest, not after their last trip ended in blood, but Derry is sure she saw Jane walk into the trees. Until the night her eldest sister disappears. After all, the world isn’t safe for people with magic. Frank, the man who raised them after their families abandoned them, says it’s for their own good. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.When her siblings start to go missing, a girl must confront the dark thing that lives in the forest-and the growing darkness in herself-in this debut YA contemporary fantasy for fans of Wilder Girls.ĭerry and her eight siblings live in an isolated house by the lake, separated from the rest of the world by an eerie and menacing forest. On Broadway, he has starred in Benefactors, Private Lives, The Real Inspector Hou Green Card and Monty Python's Meaning of Life. Simon Jones has appeared in the films Reds, Brazil. Salvatore is also available from Random House AudioBooks. Set in the Forgotten Realms "RM" world, here is an audio filled with pure fantasy and magic. His long journey finds him allies where he least expects them. Only then can Drizzt discern what perils might reach out from that dark place to threaten his friends of Mithril Hall - and to free himself of these who seek his death. The noble dark elf must return there, though, to find his friends in the gnome city of Blingdenstone, and on to Menzoberranzan, the city of drow. A place of brooding darkness, where no shadows exist, and where Drizzt Do'Urden does not wish to go. Fans have been waiting for: the sequel to the New York Times bestseller The Legacy.
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