Hardinge’s character descriptions are short but paint the picture. It is quite an ambitious feat, and Hardinge pulls it off with aplomb. The Fractured Realm has one of the most interesting political and religious histories that I have seen in children’s literature – or any literature – in quite a while. This is one of those brilliant books with a million details and descriptions and characters, but all of them are interesting and important and colorful and worth reading about.
Only her fierce ingenuity (and Saracen’s loyalty) will be able to help her make it out alive. Mosca only wants to find her place and follow her love of the written word, but she will soon find herself a pawn in a political intrigue that has many sides.
And thus begins Mosca’s adventure in a city that is a political hotbed of unrest, where people are rarely what they seem and loyalties may change at the drop of a hat. Mosca Mye, orphaned, black-eyed and stubborn and addicted to the written word, burns down her uncle’s mill (accidentally,) releases a con man from the stocks (on purpose,) and flees town with only her homicidal and loyal goose Saracen as a companion. A history peppered with monarchs and parliament, guild wars and religious inquisitions, and a holy terror of the dangers of the written word are the backdrop for this story. Fly By Night opens with a short history of The Fractured Realm, and things look grim indeed.
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