This has so many things I love, from magic to history to increasing mystery. With his help she does some detective work, and discovers there is more going on in Killshamble than she had realised.Ī folksy, dreamy story with a modern-day sharp edge. Wren falls in love with one of the Judge boys. A plan which involves Wren posing as a Judge in order to infiltrate their ranks and steal a map which will lead them to the power stones. When a local man dies, the Augur leaders devise a plan to increase their share of Nameta. The Judges hold all the Nameta, and will not share it with the Augurs. Their magic relies on the same magical source, the Nameta, and there isn’t enough of it for everyone. For as long as anyone can remember, Augurs have been at war with the Judges. They are Augurs, or seers, able to read futures and see patterns in nature. Wren lives with her grandfather in the village of Killshamble. We chased her all night, right through until dawn. Her clothes were torn, her shoes were worn, On St Stephen’s Day was caught in the furze, The Wran, the wran, the king of all birds,
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