![]() Rose herself is rolling in money and utterly isolated though the grandson of one of her parents’ former colleagues befriends her, she still feels conspicuous and out of place at school. Humanity has been through plague and pain and terror, and everyone Rose ever knew - her mother and father, her boyfriend Xavier - is long dead. ![]() Rose Fitzroy wakes up after sixty years in stasis to find that the whole world has changed. (Also because Patrick Ness and Melina Marchetta are really awesome.) So I was setting myself up for disappointment in this, my first attempt to discern whether all Candlewick authors are as good as Patrick Ness and Melina Marchetta. Magic is magic and science is science, and - and - you know? It feels jarring. There’s just something about it that feels very deeply weird. I should know by now that I do not like, and have never liked, science fictiony retellings of fairy tales. ![]()
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