A Creature of Moonlight
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
“Fantasy fans will appreciate this lyrical, character-driven story about a unique girl learning to find her place in an inhospitable world” (Booklist).
As the only heir to the throne, Marni should have been surrounded by wealth and privilege, not living in exile—but now the time has come when she must choose between claiming her birthright as princess of a realm whose king wants her dead, and life with the father she has never known: a wild dragon who is sending his magical woods to capture her.
Fans of Bitterblue and Seraphina will be captured by A Creature of Moonlight, with its richly layered storytelling and the powerful choices its strong heroine must make.
“Hahn writes with such beauty and persuasion that she could make me believe in anything. . . . This is a rare and special book.” —Kristin Cashore, New York Times–bestselling author
“The fairy-tale world . . . is richly woven, laced with such delicate details that when you close your eyes it’s impossible not to see the thin blue dragon flowers or hear the whispering leaves beckoning you into the thicket. This story engages every sense, and burrows into your imagination.” —The New York Times Book Review
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Hahn's polished, confident debut, the daughter of a runaway princess and a dragon comes of age. Neither a retelling nor a subversion of a familiar myth, this profound and original story feels like a long-lost classic fairy-tale. Its heroine, Marni, bewitches with her quaint, idiomatic narration and her core of stubbornness. She is knitting moonlight into a vengeance to destroy her murderous uncle, the king: "I lace it with the sharpest tip of a claw, the hottest flick of a flame, the empty nothing of a moonlit sky." Her dragon's blood increasingly lures her to the magical woods, even as its trees encroach on the realm. In an emotional journey full of twists and turns, Marni comes to doubt her own righteousness. She wonders, too, whether she belongs among humans or in the woods whose soul "will fold itself into you, and you will never know it's there, not until you're ten nights out and there's not a thing that can bring you back again." Hahn thoroughly examines the sorrows and beauties of both worlds before bringing the narrative to satisfying close. Ages 12 up.
