Title: Bones of Faerie
Author: Janni Lee Simner
Category: Fiction, Young Adult
Rating: 3.5/5
Why I Read It: It released in 2009, and I was in the mood for something new.

Summary: Liza’s newborn sister is touched by magic, so her father abandons the baby outside of town. Then her mother disappears, and Liza discovers she might be touched by magic as well. What will her father do to her if he finds out?

Review: I enjoyed the mix of magical and real elements in this story. It’s set in a post-apocalyptic world, which is right up my alley.

This one’s not for the faint of heart, though. Check out the opening:

I had a sister once. She was a beautiful baby, eyes silver as moonlight off the river at night. From the hour of her birth she was long-limbed and graceful, faerie-pale hair clear as glass from Before, so pale you could almost see through to the soft skin beneath.

My father was a sensible man. He set her out on the hillside that very night, though my mother wept and even old Jayce argued against it. “If the faerie folk want her, let them take her,” Father said. “If not the fault’s theirs for not claiming one of their own.” He left my sister, and he never looked back.

I did. I crept out before dawn to see whether the faeries had really come. They hadn’t, but some wild creature had.

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