Fly By Night by @FrancesHardinge #BookReview

  Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad. Mosca Mye was born at a time sacred to Goodman Palpitattle, He Who Keeps Flies out of Jams and Butterchurns, which is why her father insisted on naming her after the housefly. He also insisted on teaching her to read—even in a world where books are dangerous, regulated things. Eight years later, Quillam Mye died, leaving behind an orphaned daughter with an inauspicious name and an all-consuming hunger for words. Trapped for years in the care of her cruel Uncle Westerly and Aunt Briony, Mosca leaps at the opportunity for escape, though it comes in the form of sneaky swindler Eponymous Clent. As she travels the land with Clent and her pet goose, Saracen, Mosca begins to discover complicated truths about the world she inhabits and the power of words.

Frances Hardinge is the winner of the 2015 Costa Book of the Year for The Lie Tree, one of just two young adult novels to win this major UK literary prize. She is the author of many books for children, which Amulet is re-releasing. She lives in England. www.franceshardinge.com.

Fly By Night was an okay book. It had a good story line, plenty of twists and turns to keep you on the edge of your seat, and every chapter was a different letter of the alphabet which was an interesting concept. What made me only give this book 3 stars was the ending. I felt like the ending could have been made a little more concise and to the point. But Hardinge became a little preachy and drawn out at the ending which didn't sit well with me. Overall this was an okay read. 

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