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The Blurb On The Back:
”I used to think to make people feel afraid was a curse, an awful thing ... But I’d love for them to fear me ... I want them to look at me and weep.”
On the even of their divining, the day Lil and her twin sister Kizzy are to discover their fate, they’re captured and enslaved by the cruel Boyar Vallarta.
Far away from their beloved Traveller community, and forced to work in the harsh castle kitchens, Lil finds some comfort in the storm-eyed Mira, a fellow slave who she’s drawn to in ways she doesn’t understand. But too soon she also learns about the Dragon, a mysterious and terrifying man of myth, who takes girls as gifts.
They may not have had their divining day, but the girls will still discover their fate ...
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s YA gothic fantasy (a homage to the ‘dark sisters’ in Bram Stoker’s Dracula) has some beautifully written scenes and shows the discrimination faced by Travellers but there’s not much plot, Lil’s first person POV leaves Kizzy under-developed and in the final quarter, her disappearance means that a key decision has no tension or explanation while the ending is very weak such that it doesn’t do the dark sisters justice.
THE DEATHLESS GIRLS was released in the United Kingdom on 19th September 2019. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
On the even of their divining, the day Lil and her twin sister Kizzy are to discover their fate, they’re captured and enslaved by the cruel Boyar Vallarta.
Far away from their beloved Traveller community, and forced to work in the harsh castle kitchens, Lil finds some comfort in the storm-eyed Mira, a fellow slave who she’s drawn to in ways she doesn’t understand. But too soon she also learns about the Dragon, a mysterious and terrifying man of myth, who takes girls as gifts.
They may not have had their divining day, but the girls will still discover their fate ...
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s YA gothic fantasy (a homage to the ‘dark sisters’ in Bram Stoker’s Dracula) has some beautifully written scenes and shows the discrimination faced by Travellers but there’s not much plot, Lil’s first person POV leaves Kizzy under-developed and in the final quarter, her disappearance means that a key decision has no tension or explanation while the ending is very weak such that it doesn’t do the dark sisters justice.
THE DEATHLESS GIRLS was released in the United Kingdom on 19th September 2019. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
