This lovely book came in one of my Owlcrates. I've built up quite a backlog of novels over this school year, and I'm slowly working through them.
The world has permanent night in one place, dusk in another, and permanent day in the part of the world where the book mostly takes place.
There is a legend about why - I thought the plot would relate to that, but no, just some cool world building.
The main character - Sylvie - was abandoned as a baby, raised by people who are essentially nuns, and pretty much had a rough childhood. She runs away from the nuns to make her way to the capital city, which is at the center of the daylight zone. She thinks that she belongs there because she can do magic.
There is some really deep character building with the not-Gypsy group she travels with, but it doesn't really have much payoff in the end.
When arriving at the royal palace, she is disappointed that "her people" (because that's where the magic wielders live) don't welcome her with open arms. They do, however, take her in, and palace drama ensues. Also, some romance.
Also, a lot of words and descriptions in this book seem to come from a French base, which is kind of interesting.
Amazon gives me these stats:
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Scholastic Press (November 27, 2018)
Stealing this image off of the Owlcrate site, because blogger + phone = no pictures and my phone is my camera...
I read this on April 19.
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