*Maddy touched the final rune. She spoke the cantrip.* *The Hill opened . . .* Maddy Smith has always been an outsider. Born with a rusty-coloured rune on her hand - what the villagers call a *ruin*mark - she is scarred by this symbol of the old gods, a sign of *magic.* And everyone knows that ma
Runemarks
β Scribed by Harris, Joanne
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Year
- 2007;2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 596 KB
- Edition
- Reprint
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780375844454
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β¦ Synopsis
*The major fantasy debut from bestselling author Joanne Harris, now in paperback.
*Seven o'clock on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the end of the world, and goblins have been at the cellar again. Not that anyone would admit it was goblins. In Maddy Smithβs world, order rules. Chaos, old gods, faeries, magicβall of these were supposedly vanquished centuries ago. But Maddy knows that a small bit of magic has survived. The βruinmarkβ she was born with on her palm proves itβand makes the other villagers fearful and suspicious that she is a witch.
But the mysterious traveler One-Eye sees Maddyβs mark not as a defect, but a destiny. And Maddy will need every scrap that One-Eye can teach her about runes, cantrips, and glamoursβevery ounce of magic she can commandβif she is to survive that destiny.
- βHarris creates a glorious and complex world replete with rune-based magical spells, bickering gods, exciting adventures and difficult moral issues.β βPublishers Weekly, Starred
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