![]() Maggie is also close to her friend Takahiro, who has taught her to fold kami guardians out of paper. Jill has shared her own big secret, that she occasionally has foresight, previews of bad things ahead. Luckily Maggie has her best friend Jill to confide in. But Maggie can't abide the shadows and avoids Val, even though that hurts her mom. Maggie's brother Ran gets along well with Val, and even her crazy dog Mongo seems to like him. ![]() Newworld worships science and has used it to eradicate the magic-carrying gene from its population. Her mom's new husband, Val (short and hairy with a funny accent), is a professor of philosophy from Oldworld, where they still use magic and avoid tech. ![]() But seventeen-year-old Maggie, McKinley's teen heroine in this story, has a new stepfather and is terrified of the shadows she sees all around him. ![]() Here's something different from Robin McKinley author of some of my favorite YA fantasy novels ever, like The Blue Sword and Beauty. ![]()
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