The performing acts in the circus ring include two teenagers who have been mechanically altered.Īngelique has been fitted with mechanical wings so she can fly, while Luca the Lobster Boy has been How can these two be connected?īlack authors imagine new stories in WakandaĪccompanied by her two human friends, Robert and Tolley, and her mechanical fox, Lily visits Slimwood’s High Top. The invitation is to be the VIP guest at Slimwood’s Stupendous Skycircus that has just arrived in Brackenbridge. The notebook speaks of experiments into human flight that Mrs Hartman was secretly conducting. Lily has no idea how these came into the sender’s possession. The present is her dead mother’s notebook and journal. All very dull.īut on her birthday, Lily receives a mysterious gift and an even stranger invitation. Her father has received a prestigious award from the all-important Mechanists’ Guild, and Brackenbridge Manor is hosting a celebration for Hartman’s fellow mechanists. Lily is looking forward to her 14th birthday celebrations, but these have been put on the back burner by something more important. Skycircus begins with a disappointment and a mystery. Readers can’t help but want to follow Lily, her friend Peter, and her mechanimal talkingįox Malkin as they embark on their adventures in a unique fantasy world.Ī thrilling fight for survival in Dark Ages Britain Lily has been fitted with it, but what her father has done is highly illegal, and Lily’s secret must never be revealed.īunzl’s set-up and background scenario for his three Cogheart adventures is persuasive and masterful.

Her father has invented a perpetual motion clockwork human heart called, of course, a “Cogheart”. Lily is very different from the other teens in Brackenbridge, but only a select few know the secret that makes her special.

The YA science fiction and fantasy books to look out for this spring Lily is the daughter of the renowned mechanical engineer, John Hartman, and they live in Brackenbridge Manor in the peaceful village of Brackenbridge. The series is set in a Victorian-influenced era inhabited by human beings and clockwork humanoid robots.

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