Chime, Franny Billingsley
Chime, Franny Billingsley
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Chime

Author: Franny Billingsley

Narrator: Susan Duerden

Unabridged: 10 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/22/2011


Synopsis

“Romantic, mysterious, and wildly inventive. I adored every gorgeous word.”-Nancy Werlin, author of Impossible and Extraordinary
 
Briony has a secret. She believes her secret killed her stepmother, destroyed her twin sister’s mind, and threatens all the children in the Swampsea. She yearns to be rid of her terrible secret, but risks being hanged if she tells a soul. That’s what happens to witches: They’re hanged by the neck until dead.

Then Eldric arrives—Eldric with his golden mane and lion eyes and electric energy—and he refuses to believe anything dark about Briony. But he wonders what’s been buried beneath her self-hatred, hidden in Rose’s mangled thoughts, and whispered about by the Old Ones. And Briony wonders how Eldric can make her want to cry. 
Especially when everyone knows that witches can’t cry.

A wild, haunting mystery and romance that is as beautifully written as it is captivating.

About The Author

Franny Billingsley is the award-winning author of three previous books, including The Folk Keeper, which received the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for fiction. A graduate of Tufts University and the Boston University School of Law, Franny left the practice of law twenty-five years ago to write full-time and has never once looked back. Visit her website at www.frannybillingsley.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nafiza on October 24, 2015

I long deliberated about whether to review this or not. Sometimes you read something that resonates with you to such a degree, with such intensity that it feels as though you could never do it justice by reviewing it. That it just may be impossible to articulate the reasons why you loved this book a......more

Goodreads review by Erica (storybookend) on April 25, 2011

Keep your secrets, wolfgirl. Dance your fists with Eldric’s, snatch lightning from the gods. Howl at the moon, at the blood-red moon. Let your mouth be a cavern of stars. This is the story of wolfgirl, a witch living in her dark lies she keeps hidden from the world, and lionboy, a boy-man with golden......more

Goodreads review by Nicky on March 03, 2013

Where do I begin to talk about Chime? It's a magical story and it's not: the plot revolves around magical beings, around what are essentially soul-sucking vampires, around a girl who is a witch. The plot revolves around a stepmother, and illness, around a girl who is made to believe that she's a bit......more

Goodreads review by Lexy on September 19, 2016

this book was amazing I couldn't stop reading it once I picked it up again and managed to finish after leaving it to sit for a while unfinished. I loved how fast the book went after I picked this book up again and I'm glad I did because I like love stories.......more


Quotes

"Part mystery, part fantasy, this beautifully-written page turner explores guilt, mercy, and love." -Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author of Tithe and Ironside


Awards

  • National Book Award for Young People's Literature