The Cabinet of Wonders.
Jul. 5th, 2010 11:06Rutkoski, Marie. The Cabinet of Wonders. New York: Farrar Strauss & Girroux, 2008.
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shveta_writes handed it to me last week and said, "I think you'll like it," and she was so right.
Petra Kronos lives a fairly ordinary life in the Bohemian village of Okno, despite the fact that one of her closest friends is an animate metal spider named Astrophil, until the day when her father, an artisan and clockmaker, returns home from Prague blinded: the prince of Bohemia, who commissioned Mikal Kronos to create the world's finest astronomical clock, blinded him so that he could never make another, and so that the prince himself could finish the last portion of the clock's construction. Naturally Petra won't take this lying down, so she concocts a plan to go to Prague, sneak into Salamander Castle, and get her father's eyes back. Along the way Petra meets many interesting and complicated people, including a countess whose skin produces acid when she's upset, a Roma boy who opens Petra's eyes to many things, including the concept of zero and the way the world works, and begins to learn things about herself that she had never even guessed.
( Where the fire burns hottest )
Interested? You should be! The first chapter of The Cabinet of Wonders is available to read here on Rutkoski's website.
What an excellent, excellent book!
shveta_writes handed it to me last week and said, "I think you'll like it," and she was so right. Petra Kronos lives a fairly ordinary life in the Bohemian village of Okno, despite the fact that one of her closest friends is an animate metal spider named Astrophil, until the day when her father, an artisan and clockmaker, returns home from Prague blinded: the prince of Bohemia, who commissioned Mikal Kronos to create the world's finest astronomical clock, blinded him so that he could never make another, and so that the prince himself could finish the last portion of the clock's construction. Naturally Petra won't take this lying down, so she concocts a plan to go to Prague, sneak into Salamander Castle, and get her father's eyes back. Along the way Petra meets many interesting and complicated people, including a countess whose skin produces acid when she's upset, a Roma boy who opens Petra's eyes to many things, including the concept of zero and the way the world works, and begins to learn things about herself that she had never even guessed.
( Where the fire burns hottest )
Interested? You should be! The first chapter of The Cabinet of Wonders is available to read here on Rutkoski's website.
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