The Lost Conspiracy by Francis Hardinge

[lightreads]

The Lost Conspiracy by Frances Hardinge

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Straight up, I'm not going to do this justice. It's so good in ways I'm still trying to fully articulate a week later.

It's young adult fantasy about post-colonialism. Also sisters, and secrets, and revenge, and people who can fling their senses hundreds of miles away, and ashes, and volcanic love triangles (Me: It has volcanic love triangles! My girlfriend: . . . Their love is so hot? Me: No, I mean there's three volcanoes. In a love triangle.)

It's a book that spends hundreds of pages teetering, teetering on the brink of ethnic cleansing, and it made me laugh. It is tight and accomplished and wrenching and wonderful and strange and smart as hell. And okay, one reason I'm not telling you about the actual story is I honestly don't know where to start.

So many of you guys are going to go nuts over this, and I can't wait.




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Comments

[teafeather]

If it's even half as good as "Fly by Night" I'm sure I'll enjoy it.

[ecaterin]

WOW. Sounds like a MUST READ :D Sounds really fresh - and that's a rare thing in YA and fantasy, indeed.