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| Title | : | The Lost Conspiracy |
| Author | : | Frances Hardinge |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 576 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 2009 by HarperCollins (first published December 16th 2008) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Adventure. Childrens. Middle Grade |
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On an island of sandy beaches, dense jungles, and slumbering volcanoes, colonists seek to apply archaic laws to a new land, bounty hunters stalk the living for the ashes of their funerary pyres, and a smiling tribe is despised by all as traitorous murderers. It is here, in the midst of ancient tensions and new calamity, that two sisters are caught in a deadly web of deceits.
Arilou is proclaimed a beautiful prophetess one of the island's precious oracles: a Lost. Hathin, her junior, is her nearly invisible attendant. But neither Arilou nor Hathin is exactly what she seems, and they live a lie that is carefully constructed and jealously guarded.
When the sisters are unknowingly drawn into a sinister, island-wide conspiracy, quiet, unobtrusive Hathin must journey beyond all she has ever known of her world and of herself in a desperate attempt to save them both. As the stakes mount and falsehoods unravel, she discovers that the only thing more dangerous than the secret she hides is the truth she must uncover.
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| Original Title: | Gullstruck Island |
| ISBN: | 0060880414 (ISBN13: 9780060880415) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.franceshardinge.com/library/gullstruck_island.html |
| Characters: | Arilou, Hathin |
| Literary Awards: | James Tiptree Jr. Award Nominee for Longlist (2010), Carnegie Medal Nominee (2010) |
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Ratings: 4.12 From 2302 Users | 414 ReviewsWrite-Up Containing Books The Lost Conspiracy
Have I said I love my job? Besides working for and amongst the love and hobby of my life right now books - Im surrounded by coworkers that are also avid book readers. What this also means is that I have the privilege of hearing about excellent books that I never wouldve otherwise. So when the childrens librarian claims a book to be the best shes read all year (and shes read a lot of good ones), you better listen. Because The Lost Conspiracy is just one of those under-the-radar books thatHow funny to think that when I read this I would never have anticipated my entire Masters thesis research would begin by centering around ideas that this book has perfected. This really really deserves an amazing review. I can't write even a half decent one right now - not until work is over for the year and christmas and all its madness has passed, and I can sit down and try and formulate words that might, maybe, come close to describing this book. Another read may be in order. (Another read is
The Lost are a rare group capable of sending their spirit senses anywhere they please. When Arilou was young, she exhibited all the signs of being Lost, and so her younger sister Hathin has spent her life devoted to caring for her body while her mind drifts elsewhere. But is Arilou really Lost, or merely a disabled girl that her entire village has built an industry around?That's just the tip of the iceberg of the plot of this book. I am legit not smart or well educated enough to talk up all the
It's difficult for me to imagine reading a Frances Hardinge novel as a young child. Although her books are marketed as being Middle Grade, I fervently wish I could travel to every library and bookstore and rip off that constricting label. If there is any author whose writing transcends all ages and successfully manages to write complex stories that are never dumbed down for a younger audience, it is Frances Hardinge. Although The Lost Conspiracy is not my favorite Hardinge novel - A Face Like
I found it somewhat difficult to rate this book, despite the fact that I ended up giving it 5 stars. I almost gave up on it several times - early on - but by the end, I was a bit in awe. The author has created an incredibly strange, complex, very odd world, and has used wonderfully poetic language to do so. Yet, like one of the Lost whose senses roam the world divorced from their bodies, you are kept at just a bit of a remove from all that happens - at least partially because much of the world's
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,
This...this book is art.I'm still in shock. Let me just say it was an extremely pleasant surprise.The language, characters, plot, setting, culture, everything, are all genius.The twists, oh the twists! I had to read carefully, weighing every word, to make sure I wasn't missing anything, but it was still fast-paced and quick to follow.The descriptions...there are several of my favorite kind, which make me stop and think "Oh, that's how it is, isn't it!" Like "self-control hissing out of him like
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