Albin, Gennifer Crewel, 357 p. Farrar Straus Giroux, 2012. $18. Language: PG (4 swears, 0 ‘f’).
All her life, Adelice has been taught by her parents how to disguise her talent as a weaver of matter. On the last day of testing, though, she slips and when the Manipulation Services troops come to retrieve her, her father dies, her sister is captured and rewoven and her mother has disappeared. Adelice, however, is under control of the Spinsters, where she must learn to weave the basic elements of her world and she must submit to the domination of her ‘betters’, or even more of those around her will become expendable. There are many secrets about the world of Arras that will be revealed – and secrets about Adelice herself and her powers.
Albin has created a world where the simple removal of a piece of thread, or ‘ripping’, is actually the removal or murder of an entire life. She explains just enough to fascinate, without over explaining everything – and leaves the right amount of cliffhanger that you will be eager to read the sequel that you know is coming.
MS, HS – ADVISABLE. Cindy, Library Teacher
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