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The island of Joya and its history comes alive through Isabella's eyes and soon we are thrown into a vortex of events involving demonic beasts and hidden tunnels which until then had been thought to be just bedtime stories. With her lucid and clear style, Hargrave brings life and emotions to the intricacies of map-making quite efficiently. I never thought that this vocation can be as exciting as this. I was really happy when Isabella wasn't one of those special snowflake characters who find out she has magical powers. She was a normal human that had a magical way with maps. It wasn't the case where its only her to save the day but her best friend Lupe also played a massive role in saving Joya (the island). Kiran Millwood Hargrave did a brilliant job of keeping her readers hooked and getting them emotionally connected to her characters.
Having lost both her twin brother and her mother, Isabella is left to live in the village of Gromera with her father who has instilled in his daughter a love of maps. So it seems cruel that someone so drawn to exploration is bound to the village alone under the ominous gaze of the governor. It takes a terrible event and the disappearance of her best friend (the governor's daughter) to set Isabella upon a quest which could result in her death and the destruction of the world she holds so dear.
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Reading together doesn’t have to stop once your children can read for themselves – it’s still fun to read aloud to older children!Here are great stories to share with 8-12s that you’ll love, too... This is definitely a book that younger readers will be captivated by but there is plenty to like about this magical tale for people of all ages. La vicenda narrata è molto simile a quelli di altri romanzi dello stesso genere ma alla fine si è rivelato piuttosto originale e diverso dagli altri, lasciandomi piacevolmente sorpresa e invitandomi a proseguire la lettura.
All the legends are true in this book. Yes they are. And there are so many monsters - both human and inhuman. After a while you even start looking over Isa's shoulder for her because nowhere is safe. Okay not really, but you do start holding your breath for her. Something strange has happened the world which Isabella inhabits. It is a place full of dark secrets and a past shrouded with myths flavoured with the essence of truth. One myth, the story of Arinta the warrior girl, strikes a chord with Isabella more than the others - it speaks of fire deamons and islands which sailed the oceans.
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I dialoghi sono ben costruiti e per nulla monotoni, visto che sono una parte fondamentale della storia. Isabella! she was so brave and intelligent and she took no nonsense from anyone and she was badass for a thirteen-year-old kid (at least, I think she was 13). Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017, and the British Book Awards' Children's Book of Year 2017 The Girl of Ink and Stars is one of those rare treasures that is as gorgeous on the inside as it is on the outside. After initially eyeing this up as a cover buy and then hearing nothing but incredible things about this book I finally jumped straight in and I loved every second.
I don't have entire paragraphs to write about all the rest of the characters like Isa's dad or Pablo or Masha but that doesn't mean I love them any less and they all have a place in my heart and I hope they're healthy and happy Kiran Millwood Hargrave was born in Surrey in 1990, and her earliest ambition was to be a cat, closely followed by a cat-owner or the first woman on Mars. She has achieved only one of these things, but discovered that being a writer lets you imagine whatever you want. This is a fiercely beautiful story written by an incredible author. It was deeply enthralling and magical. I do recommend it for children aged 9 and up. Lupe. who is also ridiculously courageous and awkward and a sweet cinnamon roll like I just wanna protect her with all my soul?? She understood the terrible deeds her father had done and she was willing to atone for his sins by making her own sacrifice. She cared so much about Isa and was fiercely loyal to her... also Lupe and Isa are lowkey sapphic I love this book! It shows the amazing power of friendship, this book urged me to read all of the authors books for children and they were all just as fantastic!I found this book to be kind of average - it was fantastical and beautiful in places and a little more brutal than I was expecting. I think because this book is so short I didn't feel connected to the characters which really effected my reading experience. A strange, ungraspable kind of book. It definitely held my interest throughout, though a few times, I was a little confused. Who was Yote? What was all that fire demon stuff all about? And where did the giant wolves come from?. I think Hargrave uses the island myth to great effect and is consistent and steady with her modern (within the book's context which has a 19th-century feel) parallels and revelations. She describes things perfectly, as one might expect from a poet, without overdoing the language, giving the reader just enough detail to share her vision. Many times, this vision becomes horrific, and we can feel the terror that Isabella and Lupe and Pablo must feel, but never is it graphically spelled out in grotesque detail. I find this blend of talent with restraint rare these days when so much in books and films is overdone so that absolutely nothing is left to the audience's imagination. This story had much more potential. When I read the blurb I actually envisioned this as an upper-ya magical realism book. It was probably wrong of me to imagine it the way I wanted to, because when I started reading and got that this was middle grade fantasy I was let down. Truth is this isn't even an extremely good middle grade. If you want an original, deep MG read The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. This is not that good honesly.
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