Aug 12, 20212 min read

The Plentiful Darkness: Blog Tour/giveaway

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the THE PLENTIFUL DARKNESS by Heather Kassner Blog

Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

Heather Kassner loves thunderstorms, hummingbirds, and books. She lives with her husband in Arizona, waiting (and waiting and waiting) for the rain, photographing hummingbirds, and reading and writing strange little stories. She is also the author The Forest of Stars and The Bone Garden.

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Title: THE PLENTIFUL DARKNESS

Author: Heather Kassner

Pub. Date: August 3, 2021

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 256

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In Heather Kassner's spine-chilling fantasy novel, reminiscent of Serafina and the Black Cloak,

an orphaned girl chases a thieving boy into a magician's land of starless, moonless gloom

where other children have gone missing before her.

Though the darkness is indeed plentiful, this book gleams with eerie magic, its characters

burning bright and fierce. A visual treat of a tale. --Stefan Bachmann, international bestselling

author of Cinders and Sparrows.

In order to survive on her own, twelve-year-old Rooney de Barra collects precious moonlight,

which she draws from the evening sky with her (very rare and most magical) lunar mirror. All

the while she tries to avoid the rival roughhouse boys, and yet another, more terrifying danger:

the dreaded thing that's been disappearing children in the night.

When Trick Aidan, the worst of the roughhouse boys, steals her lunar mirror, Rooney will do

whatever it takes to get it back. Even if it means leaping into a pool of darkness after it swallows

Trick and her mirror. Or braving the Plentiful Darkness, a bewitching world devoid of sky and

stars. Or begrudgingly teaming up with Trick to confront the magician and unravel the magic

that has trapped Warybone's children.

This book was indefinitely in the vein of Coraline with its creepy atmosphere and fierce and protective heroine. But unlike Coraline, this one completely swept me away with its sheer brilliance.

When Rooney's lunar mirror is stolen, she chases the perp and ends up in the land of perpetual darkness where she meets a young girl who rules over similarly lost children. Alongside her rival, Trick, she is forced to face off against a magician who wants nothing more than to capture children in The Plentiful Darkness. Or so it seems...

First things first, I LOVED THE WRITING. It's mature for a middle-grade book (it's definitely upper MG in my opinion). Seeing as this is the first book by this author, I immediately added her two prior books to my shopping cart. Her way with words is one to oooh and ahhh over and wonder why I'm not that good and why I probably never will be. (This is OK, by the way. I would never want to strain myself to become some so talented).

If you're on the lookout for a deliciously spooky tale with the most lyrical and fantastic writing you've ever seen, go ahead and click the link above and purchase this here beauty.

My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐