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	• A Fistful of Sky (A LaZelle Family Novel) Nina Kiriki Hoffman Ace Hardcover, 2002 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 42 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Staying In The Family

Gypsum LaZelle's whole family has magical talents, manifesting around puberty. She's patient when her older siblings turn, but then her younger siblings turn as well, and she gives up hope. She's just getting comfortable with her life and her place in her family when changes start happening to her. Great set up--her whole family is fascinating, and they are all such different characters. The family interactions were really interesting: loving and good natured oftentimes, but with undertones of menace here and there, intentionally or not. I had a special spot in my heart for her brother Flint whose magic never did quite what he expected it to. The pacing was a little weird in the beginning, a lot of time jumps that weren't developed very well, but when it settles into the period it wants to be in, it's smooth sailing. Very well written on the whole. Highly recommended.

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Very imaginative

Gypsum LaZelle is a misfit in her family. All of her siblings have come into their magical powers, inherited from their beautiful mother, and she has resigned herself to the fact that like her dad she'll have to live her life without the assistance of magic. More than a fantasy, this book delves into the dynamics of this family which is why I find it so interesting (though the magical aspect is very imaginative as well). Gypsum's mother is beautiful, perfect and very controlling. She does some unforgivable things to Gypsum, if you ask me, but much like reality you can't choose your family. Fortunately, Gypsum has a close relationship with (most) of her siblings and dad's a good guy.

Eventually, Gypsum falls ill and undergoes her transition and inherits a dark power which is common when transition arrives so late. Fearful of what her power may do she must use it or it will poison her (so says her uncle when she comes to him feeling sick to her stomach). I'm just at the point where she is tentatively experimenting with her newly discovered power of wishing things into existance.

This book managed to hold my attention to the end even though I had to keep putting it aside because my reading time has been reduced to 5 minutes every other day. It's a good look into the family dynamics of magical household.

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interesting

i flew through this book, it took me literally an evening to read through it. i thought it was very fun and engaging and was sucessful at bringing magic into a modern setting (something that can be more difficult than is seems apparently). overall it was very enjoyable. a great, light read.

Really Great

I loved this book, my mom found it at value village and it took me a while to actually pick it up but once i did i coundlt put it back down, so amazingly imagitive and beautiful. I was finished within two days , such a easy read. Just alot of fun , now i want to raed her other books

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Great, Wonderful, Fantastic

You really don't want to put the book down to eat.

The author makes magic real and the story and characters are delightful. I borrowed it from the library and read it three times before I was willing to return it.

It's what I call a Keeper. One I return to in a month or a year and read again for years on end.

There are only a few authors that have some books I consider that good, Mercedes Lackey, David Eddings, Roger Zelazny. It's nice to find another author that is that good.

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Gypsum LaZelle is a misfit in a family of spellcasters-she possesses no magical ability whatsoever. Until the day when she becomes gravely ill, and discovers that her Transition has occurred at last, bestowing upon her a strange and frightening power.

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