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If readers want a book filled with adventure, The Glass Sentence is a good choice. In the Great Disruption of , the world came apart.
Continents were unfastened from time and flung into different Ages. Sophia's parents are missing in a different Age, and politicians are about to close New Occident's borders, forever trapping them on the outside. When Sophia's uncle, master cartologer Shadrack Elli, is kidnapped, her search for him sets her on an adventure with the fate of the whole world at stake. Grove's intelligent and challenging debut is brilliant in concept, breathtaking in scale and stellar in its worldbuilding; this is a world never before seen in fiction. Sophia is a likable heroine, a girl with no sense of time who must use her wits and her uncle's maps to save the world before time runs out.
Wholly original and marvelous beyond compare. A century after the disruption, Sophie, who lives with her famed mapmaker uncle Shadrack, arrives home one day to find their house ransacked, her uncle kidnapped, and their secret map roomhousing mystical maps containing memoriesemptied of all of its treasures. Was Shadrack secretly hiding the key to a map capable of healing the rift in time? Together with her new friend Theo, Sophie embarks on an adventure to distant lands to find her uncle. Encountering pirates, hidden cities, undiscovered ages, and legendary creatures along the way, brave Sophie uses her ample smarts and powers of observation to unlock deep secrets.
Though the plot occasionally seems overstuffed, debut author Grove wraps the complex central premise of this series opener in lavish detail and brisk plot turns to sweep readers along through her fascinating, fully realized fantasy world. Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright , American Library Association. Grove introduces a plucky year-old heroine named Sophia Tims in the first of a planned trilogy. The Glass Sentence will attract Harry Potter fans and others who enjoy plunging into a world with alternate universes. It is the summer of in Boston, and Sophia has been in the care of her uncle, Shadrack Ellis, ever since her explorer parents disappeared 10 years ago.
Readers hit the ground running, as Sophia witnesses Shadrack, the world's finest cartologist, making a case to Parliament against closing the borders of their native New Occident. Ever since the Great Disruption, time has settled differently in different parts of the world. Shadrack is one of the few who advocate permeable borders, and he can read maps from many eras.
He fails to sway Parliament, and a brawl breaks out. Big events happen in rapid succession. When Sophia gets home, Shadrack takes her into a secret map room and teaches her to unlock maps of metal, cloth, clay and glass. Each releases the memories of those who helped construct it, and Sophia experiences them as if they were her own. She also learns of the carta mayor, a memory map of the entire world that some believe exists, and others think is myth. But then Shadrack is kidnapped--his captor believes in the carta mayor and thinks Shadrack knows its whereabouts. Grove explores haunting questions about the nature of time and memory.
For a first novel, this is particularly engaging, but not without room for improvement. Map-making has never been so fascinating.
The Glass Sentence book. Read reviews from the world's largest community for readers. She has only seen the world through maps. She had no idea the. acclaimed Mapmakers Trilogy—three unforgettable books set in a world like no other. The eagerly-awaited sequel to the best-selling The Glass Sentence -- a Post Summer Book Club Selection; A Junior Library Guild Selection; One of.
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Recommend to those who like Golden Compass and Gideon the Cutpurse. What did you like best about The Glass Sentence? What did you like least? This audio version of Grove's creative and unique fantasy novel is lovely, right up until the moment the protagonist Sophia starts talking.
Sophia is such a sensible, smart, matter-of-fact, kick-ass character, but you wouldn't know it based on the whiny, insipid voice assigned to her by this narrator. The rest of the narration is lovely!
But Sophia's characterization is too important to be so badly represented. I listened to more than half of this before realizing I couldn't bear it anymore. I returned to the paper book. Possibly, as long as the protagonist isn't a teenaged girl. I've lost my faith in this narrator's ability to do that well. Was The Glass Sentence worth the listening time? Grove's book is. This narration isn't. By: S. Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell. Series: Mapmakers Trilogy , Book 1. Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins. Categories: Young Adults , Ages Publisher's Summary She has only seen the world through maps.
She had no idea they were so dangerous. This audiobook includes a PDF of maps from the book. Grove P Listening Library Audio. What members say Average Customer Ratings Overall.
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