The Hush

by Skye Melki-Wegner

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Chester has taken to the road, traveling from village to village desperately searching for his father, who has disappeared. One night while fiddling to earn a few coins, he accidentally connects to the Song the music that fuels every aspect of the world, and that it's illegal for him to interact with. He's caught and sentenced to death for his crime. Only a licensed Songshaper can bend music to his will.


But someone in the crowd a member of the infamous Nightfall Gang stages a daring rescue and whisks Chester into the Hush, a shadowy nightmare mirror-world where Music can be deadly and Echoes can kill.


Susanna, the Captain of the Nightfall Gang has been watching Chester. She needs him to pull off an elaborate plan that will take down the governing body that keeps her an outlaw and made her the fragment she is. Susanna needs him to exact her revenge, even if he dies doing it.


Combining complex stakes, shifting loyalties, nods to fairy tales, and a Western feel, The Hush is a lush and exhilarating fantasy perfect for fans of Catherine Fisher's Incarceron and Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker.
  • ISBN13 9780857985668
  • Publish Date 2 March 2015
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country AU
  • Publisher Random House Australia
  • Imprint Random House Australia Children's Books
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 448
  • Language English