I read this book several months ago, but needed time to digest the sheer magic it brought into my life. I’ve always had a soft spot for teen novels that can pass for adult fiction and this one is certainly one of them ! Here, Frances Hardinge delivers a vibrant world-building in this spellbinding fantasy adventure of gods, deep-sea creatures and pirates. The inventiveness and richness of the descriptions will allow you to live a thousand stories in one. I loved the gentle, ambivalen…

L'histoire, la construction du texte, les couleurs pastelles, sa poésie mais aussi ses désillusions, tout vous comblera et vous aurez du mal à le refermer. Sublime !