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The Spindle of Fate de Aimee Lim
de Aimee Lim - Género: English
Sinopsis
When Evie Mei discovers that her recently passed mother was the head of a guild of magical weavers, she enters the Chinese netherworld to try and bring her back in this middle-grade debut.
Twelve-year-old Evie Mei Huang never did like helping in her mom's tailor shop. She hated helping to mend fraying clothes, how the measuring tape got all twisted up, and how pushy her mother's clients were. Most of all, she hates that her mother is dead and isn't here to help anymore.
But when the universe sends a life preserver, Evie knows to grab it. So yes, it's weird when a talking monkey shows up and tells her that her plainspoken, hardworking tailor mother was actually the head of a Guild of magical weavers who can change the fate of a person with only a spool of thread. Very weird. But he also comes bearing news that her mother is trapped in Diyu, the Chinese underworld, and that only Evie can get her back. No pressure.
The important thing is that Evie's mom isn't...
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Finding out you are descended from a god sounds very Percy Jackson coded, but is actually a common baseline for many mythology retellings. For Evie Mei Huang, she finds out in an interesting and upsetting way.
While all of her adult family members are mourning the death (sans body) of her mother, Evie travels to the basement of her family home where she finds a talking monkey. Uncle Monk is a Yokai (a demon) and claims to be the being who delivered her mother to Diyu (Limbo) and is looking for a spindle of fate. The one her mother uses, supposedly. All things she has never heard about before. He says all of this immediately after wishing her a happy 12th birthday.
Instead of bringing this information to her father (who is grieving upstairs), she decides to go to her aunts house to ask her questions about her mother. This is where she finds out the truth. Their family is descended from a god who could weave fate and this power has been passed down generation after generation. Unfortunately, her mother has died before passing it on to her.
Evie still believes her mother is alive and the only way to save her is to travel to limbo and bring her back. Thats the real reason shes come to see her aunt: to get help getting there.
This was a really quick read. It was fun, action filled and I read it in one sitting. I can see a middle schooler falling in love with the story and wanting to learn more about Chinese mythology. I love these kind of books, because it reignites my passion for retellings.
The audiobook was perfect. I got a copy of it from Hoopla (the library system), so check your local library to see if you can get it too. 1 Mai783 451 Shelved as '2024'
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