Title: Gates of Thread and Stone
Author: Lori M. Lee
Series: Gates of Thread and Stone
Genre: YA Fantasy
Publisher: Skyscape
Pub Date: August 5, 2014
Pages: 335
My Copy: Hardcover from my Too Be Read Pile
Book Summary:
In the Labyrinth, we had a saying: keep silent, keep still, keep safe.
In a city of walls and secrets, where only one man is supposed to possess magic, seventeen-year-old Kai struggles to keep hidden her own secret—she can manipulate the threads of time. When Kai was eight, she was found by Reev on the riverbank, and her “brother” has taken care of her ever since. Kai doesn’t know where her ability comes from—or where she came from. All that matters is that she and Reev stay together, and maybe one day move out of the freight container they call home, away from the metal walls of the Labyrinth. Kai’s only friend is Avan, the shopkeeper’s son with the scandalous reputation that both frightens and intrigues her.
Then Reev disappears. When keeping silent and safe means losing him forever, Kai vows to do whatever it takes to find him. She will leave the only home she’s ever known and risk getting caught up in a revolution centuries in the making. But to save Reev, Kai must unravel the threads of her past and face shocking truths about her brother, her friendship with Avan, and her unique power.
Book Review:
An excellent book that kept me guessing right till the end. I totally found myself mesmerized by Kai and the world that she lives in. Kai is a character that you are immediately drawn to, because of her experiences in a lot of ways, plus there is a deeper mystery that even she doesn’t know about herself. I kept coming back for more.
Kai is a young woman who has a brother, that needs her help when he disappears. She talks a lot about what her and her brother Reeve have been through. You feel that they have a deep family bond, even if it’s not blood. Family are those people who you love and care for, despite them not being blood but rather choose to be family. I thought this was one of the prevailing themes that I really found myself liking. I also found that Kai’s ability to control time was an interesting twist.
Kai’s ability to control and somewhat twist time proves to be at times helpful and problematic. I really like how sometimes it comes in handy and at other times it becomes a hinderance when she has to hide it. She finds out that things are not always what they seem. Kai’s friendship with Avan was really nice and special. I always find that two people who are friends will always have interesting and unique moments. I also like how we get to see their relationship develop and there’s no insta-love. (RN: I really hate insta-love btw). This is one that both of them take the time with. Also they start to bond over little things. The risks that Avan takes for Kai are kind of nice to see. Plus he tells her things that he has never told anybody else.
The relationships that Kai has with people is what helps her thrive in other ways through out the book. Plus her and Avan learn things that they didn’t know about the rulers of the Labyrinth are not what they seem or are human. This book has a lot of mythology and the incorporation of it was nice in a way. Plus the fight in the end was so very good. She learns that her father and someone else erased her memory because it was to help her become stronger. Plus her human ties still make her more sensitive to those she loves and considers her family.
I really liked this book a great deal and am looking forward to what happens in the next book.
Rating:
Four Hearts
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