The Lost Conspiracy (Paperback)

from rivkat

Hathin is a member of the Lace, a coastal tribe distrusted by most of the other islanders-many of whom are descended from the foreign conquerors who came hundreds of years ago to dedicate most of the islands to the use of their ancestors. Now, with most of the good farmland reserved for the dead,...

from lquilter

Loved this story of a young girl, burdened by her incomprehensibly gifted-or-confused sister, and a genocidal conspiracy. The descriptions of the sister relationship was emotionally spot-on. Absorbing, intricate world-building, and an imaginative new take on psychic powers (hard to get something ...

from francescadefreitas

This was entirely original, I've never read anything like it. While the lost have special powers, it is the powers of an entirely unspecial individual that saves her sister, her friends, and her island. Every time I thought this story was going to fall into an established pattern it turned left -...

from phoebesmum

This is an astonishingly good book - so good that I'm not sure I can do justice to it. But I'll have a bash anyway. On isolated Gullstruck Island, the original inhabitants and the Cavalcaste who settled the island two hundred years ago have intermingled and interbred and, for the most part, coexi...

from atreic

So, three books in and I'm still addicted to Francis Hardinge. There is definitely an overarching theme - complex female characters have Adventures and learn about themselves - but they all feel very fresh and different too. The main thing that is different about this one is how dark it is. The s...