Mots-clés
Amanda Foody, Critique de livre, Daughter of the Burning City, FairyLoot, idées de lecture, lecture, Livre, quoi lire, roman, Young Adult
Les premières phrases
« I peek from behind the tattered velvet curtains at the chattering audience, their mouths full of candied pineapple and kettle corn. With their pale faces flushed from excitement and the heat, they look as gullible as dandelions, much like the patrons in the past five cities. The Gomorrah Festival hasn’t been permitted to travel this far north in the Up-Mountains in over three years, and these people look like they’re attending the opera or the theater rather than our traveling carnival of debauchery.
The women wear frilly dresses in burnt golds and oranges, buckled to the point of suffocation, some with rosy-cheeked children bouncing on their laps, others with cleavage as high as their chins. The men have shoulder pads to seem broader, stilted loafers to seem taller and painted silver pocket watches to seem richer.
If buckles, stilts and paint are enough to hoodwink them, then they won’t notice that the eight « freaks » of my freak show are, in fact, only one. »
Circonstances de lecture
Livre reçu avec ma première FairyLoot Box !
Impressions
Rien que la couverture donne envie de se plonger dans ce roman Young Adult ! Une belle édition reçue dans ma box FairyLoot. Un véritable plaisir de lecture aussi. Amanda Foody plonge le lecteur dans l’univers déjanté d’un festival itinérant aux allures de ville maléfique. Son héroïne, Sorina, est la fille adoptive du propriétaire du Festival de Gomorrah. Elle est née sans yeux, ce qui ne l’empêche pas de voir le monde aussi bien que tout autre être humain. Et elle possède un don : celui de pouvoir créer des illusions plus vraies que nature. Elle s’est ainsi créée une famille, chaque membre étant doté de particularités dignes d’un « Freak Show ». Tout se passe pour le mieux, jusqu’au jour où l’une de ses illusions est retrouvée assassinée. Mais comment est-il possible de tuer une illusion ? Et qui a commis ce crime ? Commence alors une course poursuite pour déterminer qui en veut à sa famille et pourquoi.
J’ai aimé l’univers immersif empreint de magie qu’a imaginé Amanda Foody. Vivement son deuxième roman !
Un passage parmi d’autres
Nicoleta jabbers a spiel about the wonders of my sight, as if my lack of eyes allows me to see more than everyone else. Between my forehead and cheekbones is flat skin, but I can see just the same as the rest of the world. I’m an illusion-worker, the rarest form of jynx-worker, gifted in mirages real enough to touch, smell, hear and taste. My most intricate illusions are my family and the other members of the freak show: living figments of my imagination.
I’ve never met another illusion-worker – only read about them – but as far as I know, I am the only one born without eyes who relies on my jynx-work to see. No doctor or medicine man can explain how this works. Maybe I don’t see like everyone else does – it’s not as if I could test that out – but I see, color and all, and I’m not the one to question things I don’t really need answers to.
Amanda Foody – Daughter of the Burning City – juin 2017 (Harlequin Teen)
