The island is ruled by a combination of Cavalcaste governors and the Council of the Lost - people born with the ability to basically astrally project their senses away from their bodies. Pretty soon, people from that city began disappearing it turned out that the smiling Lace had been kidnapping and sacrificing them in an attempt to ward off VOLCANIC DOOM.įast-forward two hundred years. The Lace said, "hey, welcome, do anything you like but please don't settle right in between the volcanoes!" The Cavalcaste, of course, built a city right in between the volcanoes. The various ethnic groups living there reacted in various different ways - among them the Lace, known for their jewelled teeth and creepy constant smiling. It's hard to describe the actual plot of this book, because the worldbuilding is so fantastically dense and complex and original that it would take up like a chapter of real text to give a good idea of what's going on, but I'm going to give it a shot:Ī long time ago, the Cavalcaste came to Gullstruck Island. As the stakes mount and falsehoods unravel, she discovers that the only thing more dangerous than the secret she hides is the truth she must uncover.Okay, so I just read The Lost Conspiracy by Frances Hardinge (published in the UK as Gullstruck Island), and - okay, this woman has published four books, and every single one I have loved to pieces, and this one isn't my favorite exactly, but I think it is legitimately her best. When the sisters are unknowingly drawn into a sinister, island-wide conspiracy, quiet, unobtrusive Hathin must journey beyond all she has ever known of her world-and of herself-in a desperate attempt to save them both. But neither Arilou nor Hathin is exactly what she seems, and they live a lie that is carefully constructed and jealously guarded.
Hathin, her junior, is her nearly invisible attendant. It is here, in the midst of ancient tensions and new calamity, that two sisters are caught in adeadly web of deceits.Īrilou is proclaimed a beautiful prophetess-one of the island's precious oracles: a Lost. On an island of sandy beaches, dense jungles, and slumbering volcanoes, colonists seek to apply archaic laws to a new land, bounty hunters stalk the living for the ashes of their funerary pyres, and a smiling tribe is despised by all as traitorous murderers. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding.
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