by Gennifer Albin
Paperback, First, 400 pages
Published October 15th 2013 by Square Fish (first published October 4th 2012)
ISBN 125003423X (ISBN13: 9781250034236)
Series Crewel World #1
Blurb
Deadly secrets
Tangled lies
Woven truths
Incapable. Awkward. Artless. That’s what the other girls whisper behind her back. But sixteen-year-old Adelice Lewys has a secret: She wants to fail.
Gifted with the ability to weave time with matter, she’s exactly what the Guild is looking for, and in the world of Arras, being chosen to work the looms is everything a girl could want. It means privilege, eternal beauty, and being something other than a secretary. It also means the power to manipulate the very fabric of reality. But if controlling what people eat, where they live, and how many children they have is the price of having it all, Adelice isn’t interested.
Not that her feelings matter, because she slipped and used her hidden talent for a moment. Now she has one hour to eat her mom’s overcooked pot roast. One hour to listen to her sister’s academy gossip and laugh at her dad’s jokes. One hour to pretend everything’s okay. And one hour to escape.
Because tonight, they’ll come for her.
Mini Review
The world-building in this book was really fantastic. What could possibly be scarier than a government with the power to control time itself? With the ability to alter events and remove people from existence as needed? That is just crazy. With that being said, the characters themselves were not very well-developed, they felt more like plot devices than people. With books like this, lack of character depth doesn’t bother me so much but I can see where it would frustrate some people to no end. I loved the ending to this book and the cliff-hanger it set up and I am absolutely dying to read more about this world and the society in which Adelice lives. If you like time-travel books and enjoy reading books like “The Hunger Games” and “The Testing” which feature oppressive futuristic governments, you should really give this a try.
