![]() ![]() Connolly makes her conflicted narrator so slow on the uptake that readers, who will twig to the true villain's identity far earlier, may grow impatient waiting for her to get on with it. More betrayal awaits, though, along with considerable slaughter, before just deserts are fully paid. The horrific truth at last revealed, devastated Kymera sets out to rescue the dozens of girls she has taken. But as Kymera pursues her nocturnal mission, aided by wings and a stinging tail that (in overt homage to Frankenstein) are bolted on, exchanges with an intrepid lad named Rendall and other puzzling clues gradually lead her to question her assumptions. ![]() ![]() Having wakened with no memory, patchwork Kymera knows only what her kind-faced creator, Barnabas, tells her-that the girls of nearby Bryre are being stolen by a deranged wizard, and she has been assembled from gathered parts of victims and magical creatures to rescue them, one per night. A monster's search for identity and redemption, with betrayal, lies and madness at its core. ![]()
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