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Daughter of the Burning City Amanda Foody Books

An enjoyable and exciting read! A weird ensemble of interesting characters form a "family" in a fantasy world that has been created by the author with care and passion. Intrigue, mystery, romance and some pretty gruesome action will keep you entwined in the story and won't let you go. I pre-ordered months ago and just received the book on Tuesday, I finished it late Wednesday night (not bad for 377 pages!).The main character, Sorina, is both heroic and flawed, painfully growing up quickly in a world that is crumbling around her. Foody has crafted a character that you can empathize with and root for as you (the reader) can see and understand things before the character realizes them. And yet, in the end you will be as surprised and shocked as she becomes. A very well-written first novel from an up and coming young author. If she keeps this up I don't think she will be working in tax accountancy too long! Go visit Go visit Gomorrah! Yet be careful, it's a dangerous place with a long history....


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Daughter of the Burning City Amanda Foody Books Reviews

I didn't really know what I was going to get when I started this book, but it took me places I never imagined and I loved it for that. A book that holds no punches in terms of the layered and dark world building. The characters were unapologetically unique. And the main character is someone worth rooting for as she seeks to protect her family of illusions from a murderer. Even as she can't explain how someone could kill illusions. She's never questioned the fact that this rag tag group of "freaks" she's woven with her own magic are real to her and family. And she'll do anything to protect her family. It's such a poignant story even as it goes to some dark places.
Also, I absolutely adored the romance between Sorina and Luca. He is such an interesting character that kept me guessing until the very end.
This book was such a fast read (I think I finished it in 3 days). And it's so worth a read!
I usually like fantasies with magical carnivals or circuses in them, and this certainly has that, but it has a lot more besides. I immediately became attached to teenaged Sorina, the head of the Freak Show in the traveling carnival city of Gomorrah, and her family of performers, from Crown, whose body is covered with fingernails instead of hair, to toddler Blister, who performs fire magic. They are a very close family indeed, because they are all illusions created by Sorina—but somehow they have become real enough, not only to be seen by her audiences, but to be murdered, one by one, as the story progresses. I don’t just mean that someone makes them disappear; these are real murders, with blood everywhere and bodies to bury afterward. The grief-stricken Sorina, therefore, must solve not only the classic murder-mystery question of “whodunnit,” but a greater question how can an illusion be killed?

Sorina is more than a performer in Gomorrah; she is also the adopted daughter and heir apparent of the show/city’s Proprietor, Villiam. Because of her youth, he has kept most of the details of Gomorrah’s past and the Proprietor’s job from her until now, but the murders suggest to both that she needs to learn more, and quickly. Readers don’t learn much about the geography and politics of the land Gomorrah travels through until about a third of the way through the book, but thereafter, these elements become increasingly important. Sorina also encounters romance, but her her relationship with Luca, a fellow performer who helps her investigate the murders, develops slowly, and the author does not hit the reader over the head with it.

I was amazed to discover after I finished the book that it was part of a “Harlequin Teen” series. Such an imprint would have led me to expect (mistakenly, perhaps) not only a “YA” book but a rather superficial one, heavy on the romance—but this book is anything but. It does have a teenaged protagonist, and a romance of sorts, but the character development and the issues raised, including the nature of reality and illusion and the painful inner conflict that competing loyalties can produce, make it worthwhile and enjoyable reading for people of any age.
An enjoyable and exciting read! A weird ensemble of interesting characters form a "family" in a fantasy world that has been created by the author with care and passion. Intrigue, mystery, romance and some pretty gruesome action will keep you entwined in the story and won't let you go. I pre-ordered months ago and just received the book on Tuesday, I finished it late Wednesday night (not bad for 377 pages!).The main character, Sorina, is both heroic and flawed, painfully growing up quickly in a world that is crumbling around her. Foody has crafted a character that you can empathize with and root for as you (the reader) can see and understand things before the character realizes them. And yet, in the end you will be as surprised and shocked as she becomes. A very well-written first novel from an up and coming young author. If she keeps this up I don't think she will be working in tax accountancy too long! Go visit Go visit Gomorrah! Yet be careful, it's a dangerous place with a long history....