- Fantasy, Retelling, Story retelling, Young Adult
Mallory Fontaine is a fraud. Though she comes from a long line of witches, the only magic she possesses is the ability to see ghosts, which is rarely as useful as one would think. She and her sister have maintained the family business, eking out a paltry living by selling bogus spells to gullible buyers and conducting tours of the infamous mansion where the first of the Saphir murders took place.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, intimate and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Marissa Meyer
- First published
- 2025
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, Limited, Feiwel & Friends
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571396986
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“If a young lady did not wish to be murdered, it was advisable that she not spend her evenings meeting with strangers on dark street corners.”
Marissa Meyer is an American novelist. A large portion of her bibliography is centered on retellings of fairy tales. She is best known for her series The Lunar Chronicles, which includes her 2012 debut novel, Cinder.
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