Speculative middle grade fiction-May 2022
It's so exciting to find new books to read! This week had some terrific ones-check these out! The first one is called The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill. I love Kelly Barnhill's work. I loved Iron Hearted Violet and I loved The Girl Who Drank the Moon. I might love this one even more. The narrator in this story at first appears to be an omniscient third person and tells the story of very different characters. A group of orphans living with kind but poor and elderly caretakers. An ogress who has been chased from her home by an evil dragon. A murder of crows. The mayor of a small village called Stone-in-the-Glen. The story unfolds a little at a time-the orphans are very different from each other but each one has a strength that supports the family. The Ogress is just trying to live her best life, in spite of the prejudice of the humans around her. The mayor is trying to gather as much treasure as he po...