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| Original Title: | Fly by Night |
| ISBN: | 0060876271 (ISBN13: 9780060876272) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Fly by Night #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Branford Boase Award (2006) |
Frances Hardinge
Hardcover | Pages: 486 pages Rating: 3.78 | 6068 Users | 740 Reviews
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Twelve-year-old Mosca Mye hasn't got much. Her cruel uncle keeps her locked up in his mill, and her only friend is her pet goose, Saracen, who'll bite anything that crosses his path. But she does have one small, rare thing: the ability to read. She doesn't know it yet, but in a world where books are dangerous things, this gift will change her life. Enter Eponymous Clent, a smooth-talking con man who seems to love words nearly as much as Mosca herself. Soon Mosca and Clent are living a life of deceit and danger -- discovering secret societies, following shady characters onto floating coffeehouses, and entangling themselves with crazed dukes and double-crossing racketeers. It would be exactly the kind of tale Mosca has always longed to take part in, until she learns that her one true love -- words -- may be the death of her. "Fly by Night" is astonishingly original, a grand feat of the imagination from a masterful new storyteller.
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| Title | : | Fly by Night (Fly by Night #1) |
| Author | : | Frances Hardinge |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 486 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 2006 by HarperCollins Publishers (first published 2005) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Childrens. Middle Grade. Adventure |
Rating Appertaining To Books Fly by Night (Fly by Night #1)
Ratings: 3.78 From 6068 Users | 740 ReviewsCrit Appertaining To Books Fly by Night (Fly by Night #1)
Mosca Mye and her goose Saracen are certainly an odd couple of heros, but charming ones none the less. The underlying story is a good one with lots of twists and turns that satisfy as well as suprise. This book receives only three stars, however, for several reasons. First, the author is a little too enamored of simile and comparison. There are some really great similes in this book but also some humongous clankers. Many of the comparison's the author makes just don't fit or make sense. There isThis book reads like a mashup of a few other young YA novels to me, meaning it doesn't feel very original, and the plot is a bit ludicrous. The writing, though, is so original and clever and the kingdom's history so well laid out and explained that combined they prevent any melodrama.First, the writing: Fly by Night flows smoothly, yes, but it also showcases a uniquely twelve-year-old experience. Hardinge removes her perspective so completely from the novel that she manages to create
Great so far. Page 1 was excellent. My wife's comment!
i wholly sympathized with Mosca's love of words and appreciated that Hardinge used such wonderfully descriptive language. "The papery sound of rain" is fantastically perfect! I also like that she inverted the usual fantasy triangle: instead of introducing many characters who are doing different things and then they converge, the characters in this one all meet in the beginning, touch again and then the action is spread out. Very nice
This is a sort of sum of a reading (when it came out, horribly bound paperback - really badly affected readign pleasure) and a listening (audiobook much better, except that Mosca was done as much more street-child than she should have been, given her father and education). While I didn't really feel the love that much on reading, I knew how badly I'd been put off by the binding, and I did indeed really appreciate the love of language that infuses the book through being slowed down to listen. The
Set in an imagined place similar to England at the start of the 18th century. All the intrigue of Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, but with a manageable number of words. And a twelve-year-old heroine, and a vicious goose.I finished up loving FLY BY NIGHT even more. It's always delightful to me to watch a character think, and Mosca puzzles out all the intrigues very well. And, she has moments of great valor. And I love all the secondary developments. And I love Mosca's final decisions so much.Read it
I thought that this book was great. It had an intriguing plot line, plenty of twists and turns, and each chapter was a different letter of the alphabet (A Is For Arsony, etc.). HOWEVER, I was disappointed with the ending. Rather than subtly make a point and then end the story, the author got incredibly PREACHY. I think the point could have been made succintly and then the story could have cheerfully trotted along to it's conclusion. Instead, the author went on and on. Her point wasn't bad
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