Unable to get answers from her mother, sixteen-year-old Liza learns from Karin that while her own actions may have doomed the fairy and human worlds, she may be able to save them with more training, if the Faerie Queen can first be stopped.
Janni Lee Simner Libri
Janni Lee Simner trova ispirazione nella cruda bellezza del deserto dell'Arizona, un luogo dove anche le piante apparentemente gentili possiedono difese nascoste. La sua voce narrativa esplora spesso mondi toccati dalla fantasia e dall'avventura, trascinando i lettori in viaggi avvincenti. Attraverso la sua prolifica narrazione, Simner crea racconti immersivi che riflettono una prospettiva unica e una fascinazione per lo straordinario che si trova nell'apparente ordinario.
Originally published: New York: Random House, 2010.
Fifteen-year-old Liza travels through war-ravaged territory in a struggle to bridge the faerie and human worlds and to bring back her mother while learning of her own powers and that magic can be controlled.
"Get ready to sleep with the lights on!" — GIRLS' LIFE A lovesick count and the ghost of his brutalized servant . . . a serial killer who defies death . . . a house with a violent mind of its own and another that holds a grotesque secret within its peeling walls. Here are witches who feast on faces, changeling rites of passage, a venerable vampire contemplating his end, and a fanged brat who drains the patience of a bumbling teenage boy. Here too are a flamboyant young novelist in search of a subject more compelling than his own eerie existence and the daughter of a sorcerer fighting to free her lover — and her will — from sinister bonds. Enter the world of GOTHIC!, a celebration of the literary form made famous by such writers as Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe. With chilling stories by: Joan Aiken M. T. Anderson Neil Gaiman Caitlín R. Kiernan Gregory Maguire Garth Nix Celia Rees Janni Lee Simner Vivian Vande Velde Barry Yourgrau
