Item: Daughter Of The Burning City
Rating: 4.00
Author: tweetybugshouse

by Amanda Foody

'Utterly original. Amanda Foody has a wicked imagination.' Stephanie Garber, Sunday Times bestselling author of Caraval

Reality is in the eye of the beholder...

Even among the many unusual members of the travelling circus that has always been her home sixteen year old Sorina stands apart as the only illusion-worker born in hundreds of years.

This rare talent allows her to create illusions that others can see, feel and touch, with personalities all of their own. Her creations are her family, and together they make up the cast of the Festival's Freak Show.

But no matter how lifelike they may seem, her illusions are still just that-illusions, and not truly real.

Or so she always believed...until one of them is murdered.
Now she must unravel the horrifying truth before all her loved ones disappear.

I picked this one up at the library on a whim i had read the blurb a few times and figured i give it a shot. I am glad i did this is a unique fantasy centered around a city that travels around kind of like a traveling circus but on a much bigger scale. The story focuses on Sorina and her family of illusions that she has created since she truly does not have a real family.

As the story progresses one by one her family is murdered. This is what got me how do you murder an illusion? Off we go on a murder mystery to solve the crime. I really felt for sorina and cried as each character was slaughtered in her family. The author did a great job of keeping you guessing on the who done it. I highly recommend this debut novel and am looking forward to checking out her series that is coming up later this year.

Daughter Of The Burning City

by Amanda Foody

Reviewed by tweetybugshouse on Jan 30, 2018

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