Skin Hunger

This is one of those books I read a while ago and kept promising myself I'd write the kind of review a book like this deserves. Well, here I am, trying my best. What can I say to make you take a chance on this under-read, under-appreciated book? Well, Skin Hunger gets a lot of comparisons with Harry......more

Skin Hunger is like Harry Potter gone bad. Imagine Hogwarts instead of a gorgeous castle with moving stairs as an endless labyrinth of caves and tunnels in complete darkness. Add Voldemort as the headmaster and food being available only as a reward once the student has mastered the requested magic e......more

This book... this book is everything I was told it would be, when it was first recommended to me by a friend in the library teen advisory group years ago. It's creative and engaging and ominous and rich, with a plot that grabbed hold of me and pulled me ever onward and worldbuilding that felt materi......more

Reviewed by Natalie Tsang for TeensReadToo.com Despite what the cover may say, Kathleen Duey's SKIN HUNGER, first installment of her fantasy trilogy A RESURRECTION OF MAGIC, is not a novel. It's a third of a novel. Or maybe it's two novels. Maybe it's a sixth. But anyway you slice the cake, it's not......more

Skin Hunger is the first installment of a new magic-based trilogy called A Resurrection of Magic. The book alternates chapters between the stories of two separate protagonists- Sadima and Hahp. Sadima is a farm girl whose family is betrayed by a false magician during her birth. She grows up with a f......more