{4.5\/5} “‘Because you were born at a turn of light,’ the dragon said. ‘As such, you belong to the Verge as well as Marrowdell. The Verge is where I am from. It is–‘ As he paused to search for words, she waited, her heart hammering in her chest, for what he told her was strange and true and more important than anything. ‘–it is a place of magic, you might say. Those who are turn-born are able to impose their will.'”<\/p>\n
A Turn of Light<\/strong> by Julie E. Czerneda, published in 2013<\/p>\n Marrowdell is an unusual place. A small number of farming families live there. The people are friendly, but some people who arrive from outside have to leave — because of the dreams. In Marrowdell a toad will keep your house free of mice, and lay eggs if you give it pebbles. Jenn would like to see the world but she can’t leave, because of a curse. She uses magic to turn her elusive friend Wisp into a man — she thinks she will marry him. But around the time she turns 19 Jenn is surprised by many secrets and revelations.<\/p>\n This is a delightful story. The magic feels natural.<\/p>\n It’s about finding out that the world isn’t what you thought it was. It’s about friendship, love, and mysterious creatures.<\/p>\n If you read fantasy, you should read this book. If you don’t read fantasy, you probably won’t start with this one since it’s 800 pages — but you could.<\/p>\n Czerneda is one of my favourite authors. I’ve read most of her science fiction — I’ll read the rest when she finishes her current series. This is her first fantasy novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {4.5\/5} “‘Because you were born at a turn of light,’ the dragon said. ‘As such, you belong to the Verge as well as Marrowdell. The Verge is where I am from. It is–‘ As he paused to search for words, she waited, her heart hammering in her chest, for what he told her was strange […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,9,28,5],"class_list":["post-7974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-fantasy","tag-novels","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7974"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10073,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974\/revisions\/10073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}