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Sadima lives in a world where magic has been banned, leaving poor villagers prey to fakes and charlatans. A "magician" stole her family's few valuables and left Sadima's mother to die on the day Sadima was born. But vestiges of magic are hidden in old rhymes and hearth tales and in people like Sadima, who conceals her silent communication with animals for fear of rejection and ridicule. When rumors of her gift reach Somiss, a young nobleman obsessed with restoring magic, he sends Franklin, his lifelong servant, to find her. Sadima's joy at sharing her secret becomes love for the man she shares it with. But Franklin's irrevocable bond to the brilliant and dangerous Somiss traps her, too, and she faces a heartbreaking decision.
Centuries later magic has been restored, but it is available only to the wealthy and is strictly controlled by wizards within a sequestered academy of magic. Hahp, the expendable second son of a rich merchant, is forced into the academy and finds himself paired with Gerrard, a peasant boy inexplicably admitted with nine sons of privilege and wealth. Only one of the ten students will graduate — and the first academic requirement is survival.
Sadima's and Hahp's worlds are separated by generations, but their lives are connected in surprising and powerful ways in this brilliant first book of Kathleen Duey's dark, complex, and completely compelling trilogy.
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Justin Collado
reviewed Skin Hunger (A Resurrection of Magic Series #1) on October 27, 2010
Skin Hunger (A Resurrection of Magic Series #1)
Skin Hunger landed on my only-i-will-like shelf due to a number of reasons.
First, there is an issue of two separate story lines that never come together in any significant way. They mingle and have common themes and characters, but they never merge. That, I assume, will happen at some future point in the trilogy.
In an unidentified middle age-inspired fantasy land where magic is lost and those who call themselves magicians are fakers and charlatans, 17-year old farm girl Sadima joins a couple of young men who are on a quest to resurrect magic, bring it back to the world to help people. She falls in love with one of them (Franklin), she is disgusted by and afraid of another (Somiss).
Years (or centuries) later, in the same country, 12-year old Hahp is sent by his father to Somiss' school of magic. Magic has been resurrected, but the children's path to managing it is rough. This school of magic is no Hogwarts. There are no wands, feasts and butter beer. Students are starved and abused. Not everyone is expected to survive this education.
Here is the second reason why I think the book will not work for everyone. It is very, very dark. People and children are kept hungry, put in danger, imprisoned.
And third, there is literally no climax or satisfying ending. Skin Hunger is the kind of series installment that doesn't stand on its own.
But I liked the novel anyway. It is original, it is different, it is unique, it is surprising, twisty and challenging. Finding something fresh and new in YA lit is hard. It is good to know some authors still refuse to settle for what is more comfortable and easy to sell.
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