Skin Hunger a dark tale of survival

Throw away your pre-conceived notions about magic because if you’re expecting the light humor and quirky characters like those in the Harry Potter series, Skin Hunger, by Kathleen Duey, might leave you a little shell-shocked. In the alternating stories of Sadima and Hahp, magic is anything but light-hearted, as two plots weave together in a dark tale of the lost practice of magic and the sacrifice its resurrection necessitates.  Sadima, who has known from a young age that she can read the thoughts of animals, leaves her solitary life on a farm and seeks Franklin, the boy she fell in love with three years before, but what she finds is more than she bargains for. The power-hungry and …» more