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A review by lindzlovesreading
Fly By Night by Frances Hardinge
4.0
Even though my dream is to have a book store that has absoutley no catagories just everything in alphabetical order. I spenind the bulk of my day catagorising books into different sections and genres. The thing I love about Hardinge is that, children's author because no one knows where else to put her. Hardinge does Hardinge and we just have to keep up. But I love the way she creates her worlds, it's a jumble of lies, rumours, mythology, which is why children are the perfect protaganist for these worlds and how they come to understand them.
I have really grown to love her writing. Especially here. The world of 18th Century London or Mandolin as it is in the book, is a magical place, even though I was half way through the book before I realised that there is no actual magic. Hardinge uses all the conventions of a fairy tale with a walled city and it's guilds and then slowly strips these away as Mosca Moye learns the reality of what is happening around her.
It was such as easy book to sink into, and I absoutetly adored how she recreated London with it's dirty streets, it's coffee houses, the radicalism and it's factions. It was wonderful.
I have really grown to love her writing. Especially here. The world of 18th Century London or Mandolin as it is in the book, is a magical place, even though I was half way through the book before I realised that there is no actual magic. Hardinge uses all the conventions of a fairy tale with a walled city and it's guilds and then slowly strips these away as Mosca Moye learns the reality of what is happening around her.
It was such as easy book to sink into, and I absoutetly adored how she recreated London with it's dirty streets, it's coffee houses, the radicalism and it's factions. It was wonderful.