Hardened
by years of being hunted each St. Stephen's Day in tiny Kilshamble, Ireland,
seventeen-year-old Wren, an Augur, is sent as a spy to the home of the most
powerful Judge to try to regain control of the ancient, powerful magic her
people once held.
Watson brings a deep and visceral
voice to old stories as well as an authentic and modern urban sensibility,
making this a highly stylized read -- School Library Journal Review
Calista is a nuanced, sympathetic
antagonist; Wren's struggles between love and duty, fate and free will are
transfixing; and Wren and Tarquin's forbidden romance feels at once modern and
folkloric. -- Publisher's Weekly Review