A new book blurbed by MWT
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queensthiefSo I went to Book Expo America this week, and there were many very appealing books, but here's one of the ones I came home with that made me happiest:
Passion Blue, by Victoria Strauss (November 2012, from Amazon Children's Publishing). Here's the blurb:
"When seventeen-year-old Giulia, the orphaned, illegitimate daughter of a Milanese nobleman, learns she’s to be packed off to a life behind convent walls, she begs an astrologer-sorcerer for a talisman that will secure what she’s certain is her heart’s desire: true love and a place where she belongs. But does she really know the compass of her heart? The convent of Santa Marta is full of surprises, including a workshop of nuns who are creating paintings of astonishing beauty using a luminous blue mixed from a secret formula: Passion Blue. As Giulia’s own artistic self is awakened she’s torn: should she follow the young man who promises to help her escape? Or stay and satisfy her growing desire to paint?"
Sounds nice...but what really sold me was what I read on the back cover:
"A lovely read." -- Megan Whalen Turner.
Passion Blue, by Victoria Strauss (November 2012, from Amazon Children's Publishing). Here's the blurb:
"When seventeen-year-old Giulia, the orphaned, illegitimate daughter of a Milanese nobleman, learns she’s to be packed off to a life behind convent walls, she begs an astrologer-sorcerer for a talisman that will secure what she’s certain is her heart’s desire: true love and a place where she belongs. But does she really know the compass of her heart? The convent of Santa Marta is full of surprises, including a workshop of nuns who are creating paintings of astonishing beauty using a luminous blue mixed from a secret formula: Passion Blue. As Giulia’s own artistic self is awakened she’s torn: should she follow the young man who promises to help her escape? Or stay and satisfy her growing desire to paint?"
Sounds nice...but what really sold me was what I read on the back cover:
"A lovely read." -- Megan Whalen Turner.
