Deeplight
Frances Hardinge, Joshua Akehurst
Subjects
- Fantasy Worlds - awesome adventures of magic and mystery
- Action Adventures - chills, thrills and plenty of spills
Average rating
‘One of our finest storytellers’ Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent
‘Pure magic’ M.R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts
From Frances Hardinge, the Costa Award-winning author of The Lie Tree comes Deeplight – an underwater adventure as dangerous as the gods themselves . . .
The gods of the Myriad were as real as the coastlines and currents, and as merciless as the winds and whirlpools. Then one day they rose up and tore each other apart, killing many hundreds of islanders and changing the Myriad forever.
On the jumbled streets of the Island of Lady’s Crave live Hark and his best friend Jelt. They are scavengers: living off their wits, diving for relics of the gods, desperate for anything they can sell. But now there is something stirring beneath the waves, calling to someone brave enough to retrieve it. Something valuable. Something dangerous.
Nothing is quite as it seems, and when the waves try to claim Jelt, Hark will do anything to save him. Even if it means compromising not just who Jelt is, but what he is . . .
Reviews
Frances Hardinge's has really original ideas for her plots and settings and she manages to write them without using a lot of obvious backstory. I loved the set-up of this story and the relationship between the two main characters. I just thought Jelt could have solved the problem so much more easily if he'd destroyed the heart once he found out what it was capable of.
Anonymous 30.12.2019
