Isobelle Carmody: Obernewtyn (Obernewtyn Chronicles) (2003, Starscape)
Mass Market Paperback, 256 pages
English language
Published Feb. 17, 2003 by Starscape.
For Elspeth Gordie freedom is-like so much else after the Great White-a memory.
It was a time known as the Age of Chaos. In a final explosive flash everything was destroyed. The few who survived banded together and formed a Council for protection. But people like Elspeth-mysteriously born with powerful mental abilities-are feared by the Council and hunted down like animals...to be destroyed.
Her only hope for survival to is keep her power hidden. But is secrecy enough against the terrible power of the Council?
Probably would have liked this a lot better if I were 14.
A waste of my time. The prose was anemic, the characters as dull as dishwater, the plot weak, the pacing was ridiculous -- either dragging like a Monday morning or going by so fast that no impact was made.
