~ "Delivery for 3C at Song View" (in Diabolical Plots)
“Wish you’d always be my Dasher,” this young guy in a neon orange slouch hat says and I swear if he could blow me a winky-kissy-face emoji he would. I’ve invested in a good set of earbuds, noise-cancelling headphones, and have an over-spilling jar of earplugs, yet accidents still happen. Sometimes, and I’m stressing the sometimes, wishes muttered within my hearing come true. I could hear the rolling rhythm of their rowing chants, drowning out my cries as succinctly as the sea would soon drown me. They left me to drown, sea salt clinging to the back of my throat. ~ "Turn to Stone Ourselves (in Beneath Ceaseless Skies) Her shade, if it still existed, had been too small, too thin to be bonded with a carving for a second-life.
Too young for even an apprentice like Mahivo to bother setting to stone, as practice. And, of course, for those who adore music in their fiction and all the ways that music can stir the soul.Īll I could claim as remembrance, for Hima had been too young-still only a child, with only a child’s two-part name-for a stone carving to hold her spirit. I recommend this book to anyone, especially young women, who have questioned their own dreams at some point, weighing the costs, but also, to those who feel as if they are the ones who have stood in the shadows behind someone else, despite being just as talented or skilled. This story has a clear feminist bent, shedding some attention and light on the amazing and talented historical women who are often forgotten, shadowed by their male counterparts. This is contrasted with her being the focal within the Kingdom of Back, where she must perform tasks in order to achieve her dreams.īut those dreams will come at a cost, and the further Nannerl goes along this path, the more she questions what she sees and what she’s been told and even what she truly desires above all else. The story spans Nannerl and Wolfgang’s childhood, their tour across the European landscape in order to perform for the higher classes, and Nannerl’s realization of both her father and the public’s disinterest in her over her brother.
And who, in return, would grant Nannerl’s wish. Nannerl Mozart, desiring to be remembered and not to fall into the heavy shadow of her younger brother, seeks out that chance within a parallel fantasy world that the two of them call the Kingdom of Back, a fairy-tale-like place of dreams and music with a young man there who needs their help to take back his world. This is the story of the other Mozart, the sister of the famed musician who was a talented and impressive musician herself.
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