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An Inheritance of Ashes
by Leah Bobet
When the world has already ended and the war against a Mad God has already been fought and won, a sixteen-year old struggles to deal with her family and community.
Hallie lives on the family farm with her heavily pregnant sister Marthe. They're not getting along, because Marthe's husband has not returned from the War where the Mad God was killed and that's placing a lot of pressure on their already strained relationship. Which is only one of a long history of strained relationships in this sad family. Then a soldier turns up seeking work and shelter for the Winter and almost at the same time Twisted Things begin appearing. Creatures of the Mad God, small but twisted, and always on fire.
Like one of my other favorite books this year ([b:Cuckoo Song|18298890|Cuckoo Song|Frances Hardinge|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1385551769s/18298890.jpg|25784713]), this story is primarily about sisters and family. Hallie's family has been broken for a long time, and she has had a key part in that breaking. The pack in the barn is simultaneously one of the bravest and saddest things I've read in a story about family. And all this family drama in the forefront of the book just makes it all much weightier when the backdrop is the potential end of the world.
Loved it. Read this.
Hallie lives on the family farm with her heavily pregnant sister Marthe. They're not getting along, because Marthe's husband has not returned from the War where the Mad God was killed and that's placing a lot of pressure on their already strained relationship. Which is only one of a long history of strained relationships in this sad family. Then a soldier turns up seeking work and shelter for the Winter and almost at the same time Twisted Things begin appearing. Creatures of the Mad God, small but twisted, and always on fire.
Like one of my other favorite books this year ([b:Cuckoo Song|18298890|Cuckoo Song|Frances Hardinge|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1385551769s/18298890.jpg|25784713]), this story is primarily about sisters and family. Hallie's family has been broken for a long time, and she has had a key part in that breaking. The pack in the barn is simultaneously one of the bravest and saddest things I've read in a story about family. And all this family drama in the forefront of the book just makes it all much weightier when the backdrop is the potential end of the world.
Loved it. Read this.