Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard by Jonathan AuxierMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Sophie Quire is a little bookmender in Bustleburgh and as a bookmender in her father’s book store, she has a deep love for books. It’s only natural that Sophie gets upset every year on Pyre Day when books are burned to celebrate the No Nonsense Movement contrived by Inquisitor Prigg. One fateful day, a very powerful book found Sophie by means of two adventurers - Jack Nimble and his trusty companion Sir Tode. It was’t by accident. Fate brought the book to Sophie just as fate brought the book to her mother many years ago and her mother died defending that very same book. The threesome set out to find the book’s companions to complete the set and to unravel the mystery behind Sophie’s mother’s death. Facing that same fate, Sophie sets out to destroy the very thing that killed her mother so long ago.
I really can’t say enough good things about ‘Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard’. The inside cover sounded interesting and the other book I read by Jonathan Auxier, ‘The Night Gardener’, was amazing. Mr. Auxier has an amazing way of twisting a tale around so that you’re never quite sure where you’re going to end up which makes reading his books an adventure in and of themselves. By the end, I was as exhausted as Sophie, but it left me with a small smile and an ear listening closely for ‘the hushed song of a story waiting to be read.’ I highly recommend ‘Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard’ by Jonathan Auxier. It’s a perfect summertime read!
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