![]() ![]() And it's rather cliched that of course Darcy is going to be strangely attracted to him, and he's going to be all strange to her, in a "what does this beautiful boy want from me way" and I think this part of the book could have been just a tad more subtle. I have never, myself, met anyone with chiseled lips. (ok-I would have liked it better if Conn hadn't been so beautiful. But her expectations of a happy year in the company of her three best friends are shattered when an enigmatic, and beautifully handsome, new boy, Conn, arrives. ![]() ![]() After being shunted from one foster home to another, she's now a junior, with a foster mother who is keeping her for a second year (a first). ![]() The story, summarized briefly up to the point where the spoilers would be too spoilery:ĭarcy was found on the streets of Chicago when she was five years old, with no memory of how she got there or who she is. The pages turned quickly-my 40 minute bus ride home yesterday took me to page 167, and I almost missed my stop, and my poor children were sent to bed late (my husband being out for the evening) as I finished the last 200 or so pages.(and poor youngest child thought it was Friday, and no one reminded him to do his homework.) The Shadow Society, by Marie Rutkoski (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, YA, Oct., 2012) is the most gripping book I've read in 2013. ![]()
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