Unraveller

Who is your favorite author? It’s the kind of question an adult asks a child or a child asks a visiting children’s book creator. It suggests a world of extremes. A world in which when you have a favorite anything it's a single solitary favorite. This applies as much to favorite ice cream flavors or......more

Frances Hardinge books generally fall into two categories for me: those that feel unpleasantly like drowning (Cuckoo Song, A Skinful of Shadows), and those that feel pleasantly, or at least enthrallingly, like drowning (The Lie Tree). Most of them feature a growing, breathless paranoia that I must l......more

4.5 stars.Hardinge has a very individual, unique style that I always find original and highly imaginative. I loved all the characters in the story and the wonderfully creative world building. How does she come up with such great stories?! Many thanks to Netgalley for an arc of this book.......more

Hardinge has probably written her best novel in this one. The worldbuilding is dark and Kellen and Nettle are some rather complicated characters with a problem. Unravelling -- and curses -- fill these pages. If a book could be a dark bog and if the magic comes about through hate, then this is the ful......more

I'm calling it, this is my new favourite Hardinge book! Kellen is a young man with an uncanny gift: he can undo (unravel) curses. That's how he met Nettle. She and her siblings had been cursed by their stepmother and Kellen helped ... only Nettle didn't leave his side afterwards and now they are trav......more