The Ghost Drum
Book description
Alone in a world of darkness and ice, a shaman and a prince long for an end to loneliness.
In the darkest hour of a freezing Midwinter, a night-walking witch begs a slave-woman to give away her new-born baby.
The witch carries off the baby in her house on chicken…
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Why read it?
1 author picked The Ghost Drum as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The first in a trilogy from vastly underrated author Susan Price. This is on the surface a charming kids’ book, but moved me more and has haunted me for longer than most 'adult' novels (and is also remarkably dark.) Set in a fairy-tale some-when, somewhere in a blizzard-scoured kingdom, the young witch Chingis seeks to rescue a czarevitch from the tower in which he's imprisoned.
When I first read this book, I cried publicly on a train, it got to me so much. I'm envious of Price's skill at using simple language so exquisitely to conjure vivid, jewel-toned worlds and…
From Die's list on to warm your heart and freeze your soul.
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