3.5
Fall of Light
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Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Fistful of Sky
Opal LaZelle turned her magical gift to alter people's features into a career as a make-up artist. But when the actor portraying the "Dark God" remains in character off set, Opal realizes something supernatural has taken possession of him.
Opal LaZelle turned her magical gift to alter people's features into a career as a make-up artist. But when the actor portraying the "Dark God" remains in character off set, Opal realizes something supernatural has taken possession of him.
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Susan O'Fearna
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“I just finished this ARC last night. There's only one instance where the editor REALLY needs to catch an error--it brought me to a screeching halt.
The book kinda ends up in the air and other than Opal we see only Uncle Tobias (and talk to M&F and Flint on the phone), so this doesn't have the "feel" of the LaZelle novels. Plus I don't like Opal as much as Gypsum.
It's an excellent book, though!”
Mikaila
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MonsterAteMyBooks
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“Before I began this novel, I reread the first LaZelle book, A Fistful of Sky. Afterward, I found I had to wait a bit, because I had to get over my disappointment that this title, a sequel of sorts, did not feature Gypsum LaZelle, but instead centered on her older sister, Opal. I didn't want Opal. I wanted more Gypsum! So I gave it a little breathing room so it wouldn't suffer by comparison. Opal is the sister who left. While her siblings are tightly bound to their mother and home, Opal broke away and moved out on her own to work as a special-effects makeup artist for film. It's a job that takes full advantage of her natural magic, which centers on illusion and the manipulation of light. What most makeup artists take hours to do, Opal can do in minutes. The story opens as Opal and the film crew have arrived in a small Oregon town to shoot a horror film that was inspired by local legend. As the shoot progresses, it becomes clear to Opal that more is going on than meets the eye. There's other magic at work, and once her charge, the film's main villian, becomes possessed by something old and powerful, it will take all of her strength to unravel the mess. Through it all, Opal will come to question many assumptions she's made about herself and her relationships. I've noticed that Hoffman has trouble with endings, and that's true here as well. The conclusion feels lackluster and unsatisfying. We're left with a vaguely uneasy feeling about Opal. What will her future hold? Not this author's best work, but still enjoyable. Recommended.”
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About Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Over the past twenty-four years, Nina Kiriki Hoffman has sold novels, juvenile and media tie-in books, short story collections, and more than two hundred short stories. Her works have been finalists for the Nebula, World Fantasy, Mythopoeic, Sturgeon, and Endeavour awards. Her first novel, The Thread That Binds the Bones, won a Stoker Award. Nina's YA novel Spirits that Walk in Shadow and her science fiction novel Catalyst were published in 2006. Her fantasy novel Fall of Light will be published by Ace Books in May.
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