Wishing on Wednesday [19]

Wishing and hoping, and thinking and praying...

"This new trilogy will capture the hearts of readers who adore Libba Bray's Gemma Doyle series. Callie LeRoux lives in Slow Run, Kansas, helping her mother run their small hotel and trying not to think about the father she's never met. Lately all of her energy is spent battling the constant storms plaguing the Dust Bowl and their effects on her health. Callie is left alone, when her mother goes missing in a dust storm. Her only hope comes from a mysterious man offering a few clues about her destiny and the path she must take to find her parents in "the golden hills of the west" (California). Along the way she meets Jack a young hobo boy who is happy to keep her company—there are dangerous, desperate people at every turn. And there's also an otherworldly threat to Callie. Warring fae factions, attached to the creative communities of American society, are very aware of the role this half-mortal, half-fae teenage girl plays in their fate."

This book had me at Libba Bray's Gemma Doyle Trilogy. I absolutely loved the blending of history and fantasy within those books and am always on the lookout for something that can compare. In the Dust Girl I think I may have found it. Though I normally yearn for an earlier time period there is just something about this summary that draws me in and makes me want to branch out in my historical fiction. And of course by now all of you should have known that the moment I saw the word fae this book was added to my wishlist as a must read.