About the Book:
Title: GUILE
Author: Constance Cooper
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Pages: 384
Publisher: Clarion Books
Formats: Hardcover, eBook
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Yonie Watereye
lives in the bayou. The water there is full of guile, a power that changes
people and objects. Yonie, 16, makes a living investigating objects affected by
guile, but in fact it’s her talking cat, LaRue, who has the power to see
guile.
Yonie
becomes aware that someone is sending harmful guile-changed objects to certain
people, including herself. Her investigation becomes entwined with her hunt for
the secrets of her mother’s past and leads her to discover dangers hidden
within her own family.
In the
suspenseful adventure that follows, Yonie and her furry sidekick face
challenges that could end their adventuring forever.
REVIEW BY: Arianna, age 13 years, 2 months
MAY CONTAIN SPOILER:
This book was intense and more than delivered on the promise of a great book!
I loved that the author made a mundane thing like water possess a power to change everything.
My favorite part is when Yonie looks for her city because she undertakes quite the adventure. I think it is lovely because Yonie never gives up. I like stories where the main characters don't give up.
My favorite character is Gilbert because even though he tortured Yonie when they were little, he still protects her. He cares for Yonie and will do anything to help her.
I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys tales of adventure, family, and a brave orphan girl.
I give this book 5 out of 5 stars and recommend it for ages 12 and up.
About Constance:
Constance's
fantasy novel Guile will be published March 1, 2016 by Clarion
Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Guile is set
in the Bad Bayous, where the water makes strange and unpredictable changes to
things (or animals, or people) that soak too long.
Constance's short stories have appeared in Asimov's,
Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and various other publications. Her work
has been podcast, translated into Swedish and Hebrew, and included in “Best Of”
anthologies. She also writes sf poetry, and has twice been nominated for the
Rhysling Award.
Constance grew up mainly in the San Francisco Bay
Area, with one year spent in Surrey, England and a chunk of another spent in
Newfoundland, Canada. She studied journalism at UC Santa Cruz, where she hiked
to class through redwood forest, explored secret caves, and helped edit the
college newspaper. Later she earned an MA in Linguistics at the University of
Pennsylvania, and stayed on in Philadelphia working on a linguistic research
project before getting sucked into the brand-new world of website design.
After Constance met her husband, they moved to Edinburgh,
Scotland for two years, where she morphed into a software engineer. Just as
she'd acclimated to saying “beeta testing” and “proh-cessor,” she and her
husband returned to the Bay Area to work for a natural language search company.
Now Constance lives in the Bay Area with her
husband and two children, and is enjoying ever-increasing time to write the
kind of stories she's always loved. Her published science fiction so far has
all been set on alien planets, and often told from alien viewpoints (including
reptilian, mammalian, and crustacean analogues.) In writing fantasy, she's
attracted to inventive, nonstandard settings, light touches of humor, and just
pure adventurous fun. Constance's writing also shows the influence of her love
for mysteries.
Giveaway Details:
3 winners will receive a finished copy of
GUILE, US only.
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