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Contender for my personal best-read-of-the-year

1% “Come now, my loves, my jewels, my newlyfounds, keep the pace,” whispered the Thiefmaker as he nudged the last of the thirty or so Catchfire orphans over the Coalsmoke Bridge. “These lights are just your new friends, come to guide your way up my hill. Move now, my treasures. There’s darkness wasting, and we have so much to talk about.”

Okay I get it. I get why this book is treasured.

I’ve finished my sample and now I’m waiting for the copy from the library

“…when he strained his memory during long hours in his cupboard, he came up with a strange vision: a blinding flash of green light and a burning pain on his forehead… He couldn’t remember his parents at all… [he] had dreamed and dreamed of some unknown relation coming to take him away, but it had never happened… Yet sometimes he thought (or maybe hoped) that strangers in the street seemed to know him.”

“Chick with a harp.
Her hair was the color of an angry sunset, and it fell to her waist in ripples of copper and red. Her steps-deliberate, prideful, measured took her eastward along Evans Avenue through clouds of dust raised by the summertime street repair. People stared at the small, wire-strung harp she carried tucked under her arm. She did not appear to notice.” - Gael Baudino “Gossamer Axe” pg 1

Enjoying the pacing and momentum of the narrative. The stakes are established early on. Worldbuilding is well-integrated so as not to make the pacing stumble.

My singular complaint is regarding use of f*ck and derivatives.This serves to jarringly derail immersion. I’m not a prude, but just because a word CAN be a noun, verb, adverb and adjective doesn’t mean it SHOULD. By Ch5, immersion is f*ck*d 16 times.

Off to an INCREDIBLE start.

Struggling a bit with all of the magic and geography jargon.