The second book in the A Resurrection of Magic series is a Cybils shortlister. TW and I had been looking at it for awhile in the library, without realizing it was on the shortlist. Thankfully, I reserved the first book to start with because the second would have been crazy to read without having this background story. And what a background story it is.
Skin Hunger tells two different stories, one of Somiss and Franklin and Sadima as they were trying to rediscover magic – and one of Hahp, Gerard and eight other boys trying to become wizards — and Somiss and Franklin are the wizards who run the school. Evil place it is, obviously since it’s run by Somiss who is… horrible. I kept waiting for there to be something good, something redeeming about him. There wasn’t. Maybe in the next book we’ll learn more… I hope. Because otherwise, I just hate the guy. It will be awhile before I find out – TW just picked up Sacred Scars, and it’s much longer than this one. Maybe I’ll get to it next week.