  | Secrets of Solace Author: Johnson, Jaleigh | |
| Price: $6.50 | ||
Summary:
Lina is training to become an archivist in Solace, but war threatens to upend her life. When a mysterious boy appears, Lina must decide whether or not to trust him and reveal a secret.
| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: MG Reading Level: 5.90 Points: 14.0 Quiz: 182104 | Reading Counts Information: Interest Level: 6-8 Reading Level: 5.40 Points: 21.0 Quiz: 71252 | |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (01/01/16)
School Library Journal (+) (00/05/16)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (04/16)
Full Text Reviews:
Bulletin for the Center... - 04/01/2016 Lina is an archivist in training with a penchant for getting into trouble, mostly because she has no respect for the rules and restrictions of the apprentice system. While sneaking around, she runs into Ozben, a boy who is being hidden among the archivists, since they are a neutral group on Solace, where two royal families are waging a fierce war. The two bond over an airship that Lina has found and attempt to discover how to get it running again, while they also try to keep Ozben alive through multiple assassination attempts. The book nicely balances the firm structure of the archivists’ orderly lives with the wild abandon of the protagonist—Lina’s defiance of the rules and mores delineates the world as much as the descriptions do. While this novel doesn’t quite have the peppy steampunk flair of Johnson’s prior title, Mark of the Dragonfly (BCCB 5/14), there is still a significant amount of shared, overlapping details, and the lush descriptions in the former novel are still very much present in this stand-alone followup. Two simple maps will quickly orient readers. AS - Copyright 2016 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.
