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Deeplight
Deeplight | Frances Hardinge
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One of our finest storytellers,' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent This macabre YA adventure, with a touch of Lovecraftian steampunk, features underwater exploration, monsters of the deep, relic-based technology and questions of loyalty. The gods are dead. About fifty years ago they turned on one another and tore each other apart. Nobody knows why. In an alternative world, fifty years after the death of the gods, a fifteen-year-old boy, Hark, finds the still beating heart of a terrifying deity and uses it to try to save his best friend. Hark risks everything to keep the heart out of the hands of smugglers, military scientists and secret fanatical cults, to try to use it to sustain the life of his best friend, who is gradually and eerily transforming. But how long should someone stay loyal to a friend who is himself becoming a monster?
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quietlycuriouskate
Deeplight | Frances Hardinge
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Ma'am, you had me at "defunct sea gods"!
There's great world-building, character development aplenty and an exciting plot that plays out against a backdrop of big themes like loyalty, courage and above all integrity (metaphorically, literally, ecumenically, too, I shouldn't wonder!).
The redundant old priests and "god-ware" tech were bonuses.
I enjoyed every minute of listening to this (even if the toxic friendship parts were painful)!

RosePressedPages This is such a good review! Deeplight is one of my all time fav books 💙 4mo
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HeyT
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Absolutely loved this. So many good things about this but also a lot of dark topics like abilism and toxic relationships. Great world building though and morally gray characters that you want to have redemption.

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HeyT
Deeplight | Frances Hardinge
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#BookReport
Loved what I finished this week and still made good progress on my other reads. I finally managed to finish the first section of OaFK which I'm counting as major progress. I'm also enamored of my commute book and have made it to 50%.

#WeeklyForecast
My goal this week is to get a decent way into part 2 of OafK, finish my audio commute book, and make progress in Black Cake for work.

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RosePressedPages
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I think this is a new favorite! The worldbuilding was so creative and fascinating. I thought the characters were all complex and went through a lot of development by the end. Hardinge perfectly represented a toxic and abusive friendship to the point where I had to take a break. I also loved the rep of deaf culture as “sea kissed.” The ending was great as well. And that cover 😍

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Marialou
Deeplight | Frances Hardinge
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Fantastic book. Really come to love Frances Hardinge; her world building is fantastic and her characters always rich and fully imagined. This book is fun, a true adventure fantasy.

It includes:
- criminals and cons
- Gods that may be monsters
- monsters that may be gods
- old and possibly mad priests
- crazy inventions
- complex friendships
- excellent deaf representation
- a hero who really shouldn‘t be allowed to pick his own friends

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Lucy_Anywhere
Deeplight | Frances Hardinge
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#TBRPile 📚 “They say you can sail a thousand miles along the island chain of the Myriad, from the frosty shores of the north, to the lush, sultry islands of the south. They say that the islanders are like the red crabs that race along the shore - hardy, unpredictable, and as happy in the water as out of it.”

imyril This has been on my TBR for a while too. Sounds great! 4y
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Cathy_J
Deeplight | Frances Hardinge
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I enjoyed this deep sea fantasy adventure by Frances Hardinge. Love the cover! 🐙🐚🦀🐠🦑🥰 ⭐⭐⭐.5

Freespirit The cover is fantastic!! 4y
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Aussie_SFF
Deeplight | Frances Hardinge
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WOW, what an amazingly colourful and saturated world Hardinge has created! Some writer cannot achieve this sort of world building and yet realism over a trilogy of books but in just these 400 odd pages she has managed it!
A world of vengeful gods of the sea that demand sacrifice and breath fear suddenly came to an end 30 years before and now their rotting carcuses are used to build a new industrial age. 4.5/5 Stars

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Read66
Deeplight | Frances Hardinge
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Well written and enjoyable young adult fantasy. Another strong book by Hardinge. A good amount of adventure and intrigue.

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LacklustreRogue
Deeplight | Frances Hardinge
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Definite lovecraftian influence, liked the concept of the sea-kissed

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scripturient
Deeplight | Frances Hardinge
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This cover is so pretty! The book is out on 31/10 but Amazon ‘screwed up‘ and sent mine out early. Yay!

Sace Beautiful 😍 5y
julesG Well, this sort of screw up is better than getting your book 10 days after publication day. 5y
Caterina Happy for you but also I hate when Amazon does that, it hurts indie booksellers so much and Amazon doesn't experience any consequences. 5y
scripturient @Caterina I know what you mean. At least this was Amazon Germany so it didn‘t hurt retail too much as none of the indie booksellers here will stock this book in English. But yes, it‘s a shame that indie booksellers have to stick to the rules and Amazon just bends them. Then again I think this was truly a case of screwing it up as they usually ship new publications rather later than earlier, i.e. what @julesG said. 😕 (edited) 5y
BethM That cover is gorgeous- I‘m interested to hear how the book is! 5y
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Moray_Reads
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Frances Hardinge is a queen of beautiful, unsettling stories

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Moray_Reads
Deeplight | Frances Hardinge
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1. A Cultural History of Twin Beds by Hilary Hinds and Deeplight by Frances Hardinge
2. (Another copy of) Jane Eyre and Midnight in Chernobyl
3. Overcast, turning to rain

#WeekendReads