When I was fifteen, I was struck by lightning. I recovered, mostly. I have a strange spiderweb pattern of red on my torso and right leg. I have headaches. I have many fears. And I can find dead people. That was the part that interested the professor.

One of the best books I have rese in 2019. I expected it to be different...perhaps more corny or predictable. But I was SO wrong!

I stopped reading this book at less than halfway. I really wanted to like it (really really badly!) but I found it slow and boring.

I just didnt feel for the characters yet and I didn't know enough about their quest. It's a shame, because I love Viking YA and I loved Sky in the Deep.

"I was a Mercy-girl with no family, no home, no fortune, and yet my blood sang a song of glory."

For anyone who has ever dreamed of finding a body in a library. " -Dedication of Truly Devious

"It's not up to you to help other people fit you into a box."

"It was the same year Tusslin' Tom Gurney knocked out the space alien from Rigel X-9. It happened at 9:38 p.m. It came from an atomic elbow.

And in that moment, without warning, and in an occurence of complete coincidence, forty three extraordinary children were born."