The strangely beautiful tale of Miss Percy Parker

Format:

Book

Title:

The strangely beautiful tale of Miss Percy Parker

Author:

Hieber, Leanna Renee.

ISBN:

9780843962963

Publication Information:

New York : Dorchester Pub., 2009.

Physical Description:

324 pages ; 18 cm

General Note:

"Leisure Books."

Summary:

The albino beauty who has come to study at Victorian Londons Athens Academy will learn not only to deal with the ghosts that she can see, but her own part in the puzzling prophecy that threatens the known world.

Subject(s):

People with albinism -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.

London (England) -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

London (England) -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Genre:

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Summary

On the island continent of Ea it is a dark time of chaos and war. Morjin, immortal fallen angel and Lord of Lies, seeks to enslave the entire world. His dreaded assassins are everywhere and land after land falls under his evil power.

The one thing that has the potential to destroy him is an object that has been lost for ages: the fabulous Lightstone that legend tells was crafted by the ancient Star people. A call is sent out by one of the major rulers still free of Morjin's grip to all those who oppose the dreaded sorcerer. It is nothing less than a quest to find the Lightstone and give Men hope after ages of despair. It is a quest that none have seen the like of in ten generations. And most believe is doomed to fail.

What hero is man enough, brave enough...or foolish enough to embark on such a mad quest?

Valashu Elahad, the seventh and youngest Valeri prince of the royal house of Mesh is such a man. With his faithful companion Maram by his side Valashu will journey to the farthest reaches of Ea to try and reclaim this mystical object, to free the world of Morjin's evil and save his people from sure destruction. Along the way he will discover truths about friendship, courage...and love.

And the terrible truth about the being who threatens to sunder his world.

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Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Six young men and women are called to protect the living world from the dead in Hieber's Gothic romance debut. Mysterious powers give Alexi and his peers the mission of keeping the restless dead in line and seeking a prophesied seventh guardian. Miss Percy Parker, an albino orphan with a talent for languages, fills none of their expectations, but Alexi is drawn to her all the same. Hieber draws Victorian London as beautiful and grim, with depictions of Jack the Ripper as a nightmarish many-headed hound alongside charming descriptions of the Athens Academy, Percy's boarding school, and Greek mythology that smartly draws together various elements of the story. The supporting characters are nuanced and appealing but given short shrift by the narrow focus on Percy and Alexi, though future sequels may give them more room to play. Hieber's debut shows great potential, and readers will want to revisit her intriguing world. (Sept.) Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.

Booklist Review

Actor and playwright Hieber could not have picked a more accurate title for this suspenseful, otherworldly tale because it is, indeed, strange in its happenings and mood and beautiful in its romance and language. Set in Victorian London, it tells the curious tale of the titular Miss Percy Parker, who has always been unusual and reclusive. Feeling alien and haunted with her albino complexion, she finds a new home and haven in the exclusive Athens Academy. There she struggles with her abilities to see and hear both the living and the dead and finds comfort and guidance with the eccentric and mysterious professor Alexi Rychman as he helps her embrace her gifts and take down the barriers she has erected to protect herself. Hieber has created a secretive, gothic, paranormal world as well as a character who will resonate with anyone who has found the beauty in being different. Happily (or it is eerily?), this is the first romance in Hieber's Strangely Beautiful series.--Orphan, Claire Copyright 2009 Booklist