![]() ![]() Sand is disoriented and alone, and Haskell captures that perfectly, transferring Sand’s anxiety and his slow realization that he’s stuck there and no one is coming to get him to the reader. With no clue how he got there or how he will get out.Ī brief aside here: we discover things right along with Sand, and while that generally annoys me, in this book it works to great effect. ![]() Then Sand, who has been arguing with his father about attending university (he doesn’t want to), throws a token in Saint Melor’s wishing well, and ends up inside the castle. No one has gone to see what could be seen inside. (Well, it’s in one of those offshoots just when France was becoming, well, France.) The duchy castle has been in disrepair for longer than Sand’s 13 years, and surrounded by thorns. Sand, short for Alexandre, is the son of the local smithy in a small French duchy. It’s in the midde grade (grades 3-5) section of the bookstore. ![]() Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there!Ĭontent: There’s death and betrayal and politics, and lots of funny French names, so maybe it’s not for the most reluctant of readers. First sentence: “Sand woke, curled in the ashes of a great fireplace.” ![]()
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