The songbirds of Joya were supplanted by ravens when the Governor arrived. Thirteen-year-old Isabella Riosse, daughter of a cartographer, lives on the island of Joya. Reading it completely enchanted me, and I won't be forgetting this book any time soon!

To end off, The Girl of Ink and Stars was a story of magic, myths, and monsters a story of courage, kindness, heartbreak, and most of all - hope.

Okay not really, but you do start holding your breath for her. After a while you even start looking over Isa's shoulder for her because nowhere is safe. And there are so many monsters - both human and inhuman. 🌟 All the legends are true in this book. It's impossible to put this one down - I finished this book in just a few days (which is fast for me - I'm a snail reader)! Honestly MG fantasy adventure is the best. It's so beautiful and it grips you from the very first page and doesn't let you go. 🌟 I don't have entire paragraphs to write about all the rest of the characters like Isa's dad or Pablo or Masha but that doesn't mean I love them any less and they all have a place in my heart and I hope they're healthy and happy She cared so much about Isa and was fiercely loyal to her. who is also ridiculously courageous and awkward and a sweet cinnamon roll like I just wanna protect her with all my soul? She understood the terrible deeds her father had done and she was willing to atone for his sins by making her own sacrifice. 🌟 Isabella! she was so brave and intelligent and she took no nonsense from anyone and she was badass for a thirteen-year-old kid (at least, I think she was 13). Anyway, i think the book should get a star just for how pretty it is. There were three parts in the book and before each part there was a beautiful map of the new location the characters were in. The whole book was filled with pretty designs and tiny details of maps and even the ink of the text was a lovely navy blue color. Soon, following her heart, her map and an ancient myth, Isabella discovers that the true end to her journey is to save the island itself. But the world beyond the walls is a monster-filled wasteland, and far beneath the earth, beneath the dry rivers and smoking mountains, a legendary fire demon is stirring. As a cartographer's daughter, she's equipped with elaborate ink maps and knowledge of the stars. When her best friend disappears into the island's Forgotten Territories, she immediately volunteers to join the search. The Girl of Ink and Stars was a haunting, captivating Moana-esque tale - one that left tingles up my spine long after I'd finished reading.įorbidden to leave her island, Isabella Riosse has always dreamed of the faraway lands her father once mapped. All the smaller birds flew backwards into the sea, and that is why there are no songbirds on Joya. They say the day the Governor arrived, the ravens did too. Kiran lives in Oxford with her husband and their cats, Luna and Marly. She is represented by Hellie Ogden (UK) and Kirby Kim (US) at Janklow & Nesbit. Writing for the New York Times Book Review, Emily Barton called it 'among the best novels I've read in years', and it won a Betty Trask Award. Her first book for adults, The Mercies, debuted as The Times number 1 bestseller, and at number 5 in the Sunday Times Bestseller Charts. Her debut YA novel The Deathless Girls was published in 2019, and was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, and long listed for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Julia and the Shark, in collaboration with her husband, artist Tom de Freston, was Indie Book of the Month, Scottish Booktrust Book of the Month, and has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2021. A Secret of Birds & Bone, her fourth middle grade title, was published in 2020. Her books include the bestselling winner of the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017 The Girl of Ink & Stars, and Costa Book Awards- and Blue Peter Awards-shortlisted The Island at the End of Everything, and The Way Past Winter, Blackwell's Children's Book of the Year 2018. Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an award winning poet, playwright, and novelist.

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