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Original Title:	Gullstruck Island
ISBN:	0060880414 (ISBN13: 9780060880415)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.franceshardinge.com/library/gullstruck_island.html
Characters:	Arilou, Hathin
Literary Awards:	James Tiptree Jr. Award Nominee for Longlist (2010), Carnegie Medal Nominee (2010)

The Lost Conspiracy Hardcover | Pages: 576 pages

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Title	:	The Lost Conspiracy
Author	:	Frances Hardinge
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 576 pages
Published	:	September 1st 2009 by HarperCollins (first published December 16th 2008)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Adventure. Childrens. Middle Grade

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On an island of sandy beaches, dense jungles, and slumbering volcanoes, colonists seek to apply archaic laws to a new land, bounty hunters stalk the living for the ashes of their funerary pyres, and a smiling tribe is despised by all as traitorous murderers. It is here, in the midst of ancient tensions and new calamity, that two sisters are caught in a deadly web of deceits.

Arilou is proclaimed a beautiful prophetess one of the island's precious oracles: a Lost. Hathin, her junior, is her nearly invisible attendant. But neither Arilou nor Hathin is exactly what she seems, and they live a lie that is carefully constructed and jealously guarded.

When the sisters are unknowingly drawn into a sinister, island-wide conspiracy, quiet, unobtrusive Hathin must journey beyond all she has ever known of her world and of herself in a desperate attempt to save them both. As the stakes mount and falsehoods unravel, she discovers that the only thing more dangerous than the secret she hides is the truth she must uncover.

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Anas Take:This probably sounds extremely clichéd, but reading a Frances Hardinge book is like entering a whole new world. Take Gullstruck Island for example: where consuming a certain type of fish allows one a glimpse of the future; where a beetle song is deadly; and where different peoples fight for survival, as the places for the honoured dead expand at the expense of the places for the living. On one small corner of the island, the Lace who smile all the time with their adorned teeth and

"Well, what did I want, recognition? No, Hathin realized, I did everything I did because, well, Im me." Frances Hardinge and her oddball magical fantastical stories that, far from the simplicity often expected of books aimed at slightly less wrinkled audience, are filled with thought-provoking multilayered and often ambiguous complexity, are undoubtedly my best literary discovery of 2013 so far. Her stories are soaked in belief that children's literature can in no way be inferior to that meant

3 Stars The Lost Conspiracy by Frances Hardinge was simply an uneven read for me. This comes across as a light version of an adult oriented fairytale. The writing is one the best part of this story as Hardinge brought this place to life. Hathin, the young female main protagonist is the star of this book and the only reason that I finished it. I loved this passionate, strong, fearless, and bossy young woman. She will be unforgettable. I had problems with this book as after you reach the midway

Foolishly, when I was around 17 years old, I mused out loud to my friend, I dont know why its so difficult to be a successful artist. All you have to do is create something entirely new.Entirely new. I said this like it was as simple as tying a shoe or picking a flower. Of course, its not that simple; its immensely difficult to be original. Just ask Nicholas Sparks and every Tom Cruise movie ever. Hey, even ask Shakespeare! But in The Lost Conspiracy, Hardinge fulfills my age 17 requirements for

Two sisters live on an isolated island that is the home of 4 volcanoes, couple of tribes, and 200 years of opression for the Lace tribe. The turning point of the book is murder of all the Lost, people who can detach their senses from their bodies. The Lace are blamed, of course. I love every book Frances Hardinge puts out. Seemingly for children and young adults, it always packs a serious punch. Here, the punch was somewhat preachy and neatly resolved, so 4 stars from me. The setting of this

I think that as adult reviewers of books for children and teens we have a duty to separate ourselves from our material and give our books an impartial eye, one and all. As a reviewer, I dont know how wise it is for me to get as excited as a ten-year-old when the newest book from a favorite childrens author comes out. If I adopt a fangirl mindset then how impartial a reviewer can I be? I have a requirement, nay, a duty to not enjoy a book too much when I read it. I must remain calm and cool and

While Cuckoo Song remains my favourite Hardinge book, Gullstruck Island is very good. I continue to be amazed by the depth of creativity and fine quality of writing that are trademark elements in all of Hardinge's work.The island setting is richly detailed in geography and culture, and the characters are, as always, impressively singular. True to all of Hardinge's tales this story has some exceptionally dark elements, and delves deep into the relationships that bind people together, whether