Erdem Yili
- 408bladzijden
- 15 uur lezen
Kim Liggett creëert boeiende verhalen die de donkerdere aspecten van de menselijke natuur en maatschappelijke druk verkennen. Haar schrijven kenmerkt zich door een rijke, sfeervolle stijl die lezers onderdompelt in spannende en tot nadenken stemmende verhalen. Liggetts werk duikt in complexe thema's en onderzoekt vaak de grenzen van moraliteit en de psychologische diepten van haar personages. Ze brengt een unieke en krachtige stem in de hedendaagse literatuur, wat een blijvende indruk achterlaat bij haar publiek.




In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds; that their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac. That is why they're banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive. Tierney James dreams of a society that doesn't pit friend against friend or woman against woman. She fears the brutal elements, the poachers in the woods, men who are waiting for a chance to grab one of the girls in order to make a fortune on the black market. But her greatest threat may very well be the other girls
"Seventeen-year-old Ash Larkin finds out her family is involved in a centuries-old saga of love and murder, alchemy and immortality when she follows her mother to an isolated settlement in the cornfields of Kansas"-- Provided by publisher