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    The Turnaway Girls
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    The Turnaway Girls

    Written by Hayley Chewins

    Narrated by Bailey Carr

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    About this audiobook

    Delphernia Undersea wants to sing. But everyone on Blightsend knows music belongs to the Masters — and girls with singing throats are swallowed by the sea.

    On the strange, stormy island of Blightsend, twelve-year-old Delphernia Undersea has spent her whole life in the cloister of turnaway girls, hidden from sea and sky by a dome of stone and the laws of the island. Outside, the Masters play their music. Inside, the turnaway girls silently make that music into gold. Making shimmer, Mother Nine calls it. But Delphernia can't make shimmer. She would rather sing than stay silent.

    When a Master who doesn't act like a Master comes to the skydoor, it's a chance for Delphernia to leave the cloister. Outside the stone dome, the sea breathes like a wild beast, the sky watches with stars like eyes, and even the gardens have claws. Outside, secrets fall silent in halls without sound. And outside, Delphernia is caught — between the island's sinister Custodian and its mysterious Childer-Queen.

    Between a poem-speaking prince and a girl who feels like freedom. And in a debut that glimmers with hope and beauty, freedom — to sing, to change, to live — is precisely what's at stake.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 9, 2018
    ISBN9781978644670
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    • 4/5
      The Turnaway Girls by Haley Chewins was a wonderful book. After reading a couple of books that simply left me wanting more, I was grateful for such an engaging and fantastical read. Recommended for all middle-grade readers, particularly those that enjoy fantasy!
    • 4/5
      I'm a sucker for a book that twists language into something lyrical and magical. The Turnaway Girls does just that as it sets up a world where making shimmer/gold from music is not only possible, but something destined from birth. Delphernia Undersea is a turnaway girl who can't do any of the things turnaway girls are meant to do. She can't make shimmer, she can't stop asking questions or thinking for herself, and she can't help but sing. Only when she's alone with her birds, though, because "girls with singing throats are swallowed by the sea." As the book unfolds, we learn more about the world Delphernia inhabits and its history. If you're like me and you perk up at the merest hint of backstory, you'll be happy to know that quite a bit of it is delivered as promised and most of the questions I had were answered by the end of the book.There are queens and princes and falling apart castles, as well as monsters both human and otherwise, and the important lesson of what love isn't. The only thing that kept me from giving this a perfect score is that it relies far too much on Delphernia and Bly not communicating at all. He takes her from her cloister and they spend their first day or so together and then... that's it. He's forever away in his cave and Delphernia never mentions going after him and they never talk, but we're forever in dread of him mentioning her singing even though it's obvious to even Delphernia that he knows she can and does sing. Naturally it's only brought to a head once it's time for a Big Dramatic Rescue. Why? Did I gloss over the reasoning (beyond Bly being a little off) or is it simply a case of forced dramatic tension? Hell, Bly explicitly warns Delphernia during their first conversation not to trust the Childer-queen and yet she and Delphernia spend far more time talking than we ever see with Bly. In any case, the story is written beautifully and I enjoyed it. I received an ARC of this book and this was the honest review. Huzzah.
    • 4/5
      Delphernia lives in a cloister of turnaway girls on the island of Blightsend, and she's unable to do the one thing that the turnaway girls are raised to do: stay silent and turn music made by the Masters outside the cloister into gold. To further complicate things, Delphernia loves to sing and has questions and opinions, and those things are unwelcome and punished in the cloister--in fact, as Delphernia is told repeatedly by the head of the girls, Mother Nine, "girls with singing throats are swallowed by the sea."Delphernia escapes the cloister thanks to being chosen by a young Master to accompany him outside its walls, and by venturing into the larger world, she finds herself pushed and pulled in different directions by her own wants and needs as well as those of a prince, a queen, and the island's Custodian.THE TURNAWAY GIRLS by Hayley Chewins is beautiful in so many ways. The cover is gorgeous, and the writing is lyrical and hypnotic--but it also has a fast tempo, and it's hard to put down. Delphernia is a vibrant character, and she commands every page. The others in the book pale in comparison, and I found myself wishing for more of the book than its 250+ pages so that I could get to know them and their stories better.I wish the world of THE TURNAWAY GIRLS had been better developed, too, and the plot's twists and turns were often abrupt. The characters and setting of this book deserved a little more depth, but the beauty of the writing and Delphernia's strength kept me flipping the pages and invested in the outcome. I'll definitely look for more books by this author. This was her debut, and the way she gathers words and puts them to a page makes me expect great things from her in the future.My thanks to the publisher and LibraryThing for a copy of the book in exchange for my honest review.
    • 5/5
      I received an advance reading copy of this book through the Early Reviewers program in return for an unbiased review. This is a first-person fantasy novel set on the strange island of Blightsend, where Masters make music and turnaway girls are imprisoned in a cloister to draw gold from music for the kingdom. When Delphernia escapes the cloister thanks to the intervention of a twelve-year-old named Bly, she learns that the kingdom is based on lies and that she has a role to play. Poetic, lyrical, dreaming, moving, this was a quick but intense read. Strongly recommended!
    • 3/5
      There were many things to love about this book--the world is fascinating, and the mechanics of the magic system (turning music into gold, for example) were extremely innovative and compelling. It fell short in its delivery. The many weaving plots never felt fully fleshed out. The characters were rigid and stoic, and I had a hard time connecting to the main character, Delphernia, though that might simply be a matter of personal taste. Despite its faults, I did very much enjoy the lyricism of the book, and for the right reader I do think THE TURNAWAY GIRLS would be a wonderful addition to their reading collection.
    • 4/5
      The Turnaway Girls was a quick and capturing read. Hayley is a really imaginative and skilled writer.