The story starts in the Republic, where Morrigan lives, officially listed on the Cursed Child Register and due to die at midnight on the next Eventide. Townsend has created an enchanting fantasy world, with a strong and appealing protagonist in Morrigan Crow. I will certainly be encouraging her to start it. She never read it, but now that I have finished it, I can say that it is exactly the type of book that would appeal to her and others her age. I have a child who is in this age category, and bought this book for her when it first came out, mostly because the cover image appealed to me, but partly because the back cover blurb sounded interesting. This is a fairly new fantasy series, aimed at 8-12-year olds. Like every other child born precisely eleven years ago on the last Eventide, when the clock struck midnight she would die - the eleven short years of her doomed life complete her curse finally fulfilled. Morrigan's night held only one possibility.
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