A diptych rather unusual in children's literature, used to plow the same furrow. Moreover not sure whether to be placed in children's literature, apart from the fact that heroes are relatively young.
Original in the sense that the atmosphere the dark and foggy connected to the lineage of English Gothic novels, Wuthering Heights or Castle Cassandra
and gender, which connects to both the realism and uchronies.
Fantastic realism is a genre in which fantasy is like as it left to the interpretation of the reader: the author does not relate directly but made fantastic characters believe in books. For example here Avias the legend, being half human, half swan. Superstition or reality of the world described? Little girl who has read all considered this indeed a reality, while I opted for the opposite: Leah is not an aviation, she believes being and scuff or aggie also believe in nothing but the novel is dispositive.
The universe is an alternate history offset from ours, as if at one time it had diverged from ours. Here are many details close to our world while others are radically different. One might well think himself in an England half stuck in a kind of medieval pre-scientific because of a religion that exists in our world that trace superstitious rural: A religion that is Bird gods, demons or intermediaries between the mortal world and the demonic or divine worlds. Birds that are good omens or bad omens that are trying to protect by charms or prayers. In this world the power belongs to a character closely linked to religion and stifling freedoms.
Both novels are also initiatory (the heroes learn about life through events and discover the secrets of their origins), and religious and political (mysterious rebels fighting against the autocratic and theocratic power and succeed in destroying it).
The central character and narrator of the first Volume is Aggie. The story takes place in an area with a reputation disturbing, isolated village in the wild moorland. A young girl, Agnes Cotter, hired as her companion to Leah, daughter of the Master. The Master, a powerful man became disabled following an accident, shattered by the death of his wife, former member of government. A crafty steward, both seductive and clever, that makes the law and dictates his moral conduct to each employee. And an ancient myth, that of the existence of Avia, these creatures half-man half-bird ... which would explain the fascination with Leah for the swans.
The Amber Gateway is Scuff who do not know any other names that this nickname and number 102 branded on his wrist, proof of its status as an orphan. Chased by the soldiers of the Lord Protector and sought by the rebels, it is safer in Murkmere field where she worked for several years. After staying on the moor alongside Erland and a short stint in a brothel, his misadventures lead her to the capital in the walls of the palace. There she found Leah, daughter of the late master of Murkmere and prisoner of the Lord Protector who wants him to marry his son. Approaching the door of Amber, is supposed provide access to paradise and considered extinct, Scuff approach also met his true identity.
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