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Conjured

Conjured 1

by Sarah Beth Durst
Paperback
Publication Date: 16/09/2014
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Eve has a new home, a new face, and a new name-but no memories of her past. She's been told that she's in a witness protection program. That she escaped a dangerous magic-wielding serial killer who still hunts her. The only thing she knows for sure is that there is something horrifying in her memories the people hiding her want to access-and there is nothing they won't say-or do-to her to get her to remember.

At night she dreams of a tattered carnival tent and buttons being sewn into her skin. But during the day, she shelves books at the local library, trying to not let anyone know that she can do things-things like change the color of her eyes or walk through walls. When she does use her strange powers, she blacks out and is drawn into terrifying visions, returning to find that days or weeks have passed-and she's lost all short-term memories. Eve must find out who and what she really is before the killer finds her-but the truth may be more dangerous than anyone could have ever imagined.
ISBN:
9780802737496
9780802737496
Category:
Mysteries
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
16-09-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
384
Dimensions (mm):
210x140x23mm
Weight:
0.35kg
Sarah Beth Durst

Sarah Beth Durst is the author of ten fantasy novels for adults, teens, and children, including The Lost, Vessel, and The Girl Who Could Not Dream. She was awarded the 2013 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award and has been a finalist for SFWA's Andre Norton Award three times.

She is a graduate of Princeton University, where she spent four years studying English, writing about dragons, and wondering what the campus gargoyles would say if they could talk. Sarah lives in Stony Brook, New York, with her husband and children.

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Conjured is a wild ride to Creepville on Freaky Express with multiple stops by Confusing Station. It was too slow for me, but it did have great imagery.

THINGS I LIKED
1. I enjoy a good book of extraordinary imagination.
2. The setting was partially a quiet Witness Protection town, partly a freaky carnival. You know the drill. Magician. Dolls. Puppets. Sawing people in half. Magical other-worlds. Storytellers. Knitting needles.
2. The human boy: Zach. He works at the same library as our narrator (Eve). He's hilarious and talkative and bubbly.
3. The plot was unique. (It reminded me of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.) It mixes magic into our world in this epic law-and-order case.

THINGS I DISLIKED A LOT
1. The writing style. Hey, but this is so subjective, so I honestly need to yell "READ IT" if you at all like the premise. But the style, to me, felt really thick. It was like eating insanely dense porridge. And the description? Eeeeverywhere. Literally everything was minutely described. I longed for plot and action and more characterisation. The description and slowness bored me half to death.
2. Because our narrator kept losing her memories, it was freakishly hard to connect to ANYONE in the book. I'd flip to a new chapter and oops, oh no! Her brain is compromised again. I needed to care about her (and hopefully the supporting cast). But I just didn't. I didn't know them.

3. The ending was a whirlwind of confusing weirdness. I'm not even sure who "won" this. I'm not even sure what the villain's issue was.

All in all? Basically, this is a book about memory loss, magic, and freaky carnival descriptions. I recommend it if you love noir novels with a dash of superpowers and blood soaked visions. And don't mind them being extremely slow. Conjured was okay in my humble but fabulous opinion, but didn't impress me.

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