“Every little stitch and seam told me I was changing, leaving behind my
old, baby self… then the voice would rise up in my ear, getting louder, echoing
around me. Hold still and sleep. It was easier to turn toward it, to follow it
down into a jumble of dreams—hills and creeks and hollows. Trees to climb, fields going on forever. I fell headfirst into a sinkhole of pretty
things, and the world inside your eyelids is just as big as the one outside.”
Brenna Yovanoff creates another fascinating YA gothic
paranormal story with Fiendish. Clementine remembers going into the garden to
fetch a tomato for her mother. She remembers
that there was something off about the tomato, it was a stone. She remembers closing her eyes, and following
the instructions to hold still and sleep, but always conscious, always
thinking. Always alone, waiting, until one day she hears
voices and is rescued from her cellar with her eyes sewn shut, still wearing
her childhood frock. Clementine is saved
by Eric Fisher, but was she saved or did he unleash a threat on to the town
that had been locked up? Soon questions
like that one begin to pile up, because whatever happened years ago, the night
Clementine was hidden away, is happening again. Delving deeper in order to
understand what happened those years ago will only stir the pot more, and soon
Clementine and her rag tag group of friends and Fisher will be called to pay
the price for what they are. It’s not
always easy being an outsider, especially when there are mysteries and
unexplainable things arising. With swamp
people known as Fiends, magical powers, and obvious hate crimes this is another
stunning story of the outcasts in society from the author of The
Replacement, The Space Between, and
Paper Valentine.
4 out of 5 stars.
Thank you Edelweiss!
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