Adam, it turns out, is immune to her deadly touch. After months of isolation, her captors suddenly give her a cellmate-Adam, a drop-dead gorgeous guy. Juliette’s journal holds her tortured thoughts in an attempt to repress memories of the horrific act that landed her in a cell. Juliette was torn from her home and thrown into an asylum by The Reestablishment, a militaristic regime in control since an environmental catastrophe left society in ruins.

12 & up)Ī dystopic thriller joins the crowded shelves but doesn't distinguish itself. Chiefs in Africa.” Some structural implausibility pales before vivid sensory descriptions (hexed gingerbread tastes “weet and dark, like roast duck or cedar pencils”) and delightful magical happenings both thrilling and nefarious. The pages are a multiracial group, but the white librarians unfortunately romanticize the Akan peoples, constantly spouting proverbs from those “great men and women. Shulman’s prose sparkles describing the Grimm objects’ magic powers (recognizable from tales) and the profound deposits required to borrow them (a “long, translucent, sweater-shaped thing” is “somebody’s sense of privacy” a future firstborn looks “infinitely vulnerable and undefined, like a thought before you put it into words”). The Repository houses historical articles (textiles, wigs, tea sets), including the Grimm Collection, all circulating.

She passes the button-sorting interview and begins work in the stacks, where call slips arrive via pneumatic tubes. Lonely in New York City, her family straight out of Grimm (dead mom, inattentive dad, cold stepfamily), Elizabeth agrees to work at the New-York Circulating Material Repository. Fairy-tale and romance devotees, museum aficionados and budding librarians will pine for Elizabeth’s afterschool job.

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