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Book: Libyrinth (Libyrinth #1) by Pearl North
Publisher: Tor Teen, 2010
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Bibliomania
Rating: 4 Page Turns
Recommend: For all the readers who like to read about books, with a touch of fantasy and a truly imaginative tale. This book is truly diverse featuring characters with a range of ethnicities, sexual orientations and genders.
Book Pro’s: Amazing theme, use of strong female characters, diversity widely accepted and promoted in the book.
Book Con’s: Stunted characters that don’t allow for a bond to form between reader and book.
Favourite Line: “If we can understand each other, then is anything really beyond our reach?”

Cover: I think the cover is moody, atmospheric and very brown. Which makes it a bit muddy, but hey, we get to see the main character, Haly, and the little imp, Nod. Mind you, it scared me when I realised what the hell that red devil looking thing was.

Setting: Set in a futuristic, imaginative world, Libyrinth details a series of city states that coexist with each other and the greatest honor is to become a Libyrarian, or a scholar really. Books are heralded as living things and precious to be hold, something that causes much strife with enemies of the Libyrarian’s, the Singers, who believe that the written word is a murdered word and something to be destroyed. But is everything as it seems? What do the Singers carry out by burning books? Is their mandate to spread illiteralism? Why don’t the Libyrarians share the ability to read?

Characters: The flawed characters are the greatest problem in the book. Readers hardly get a chance to get to know each character or understand their personalities, loves, hates and drives. As a result, you don’t really care what happens to each character, or yearn to know what happens next.

Review: My first read in 2013! I’ve craved this book for so long. I have a weakness for something that has a touch of bibliomania, or books about books. In short, I thought this book was good-great, it has the potential to be fully great, to be amazing and stunning, a work of true poetry. Unfortunately, North doesn’t push the limits or boundaries enough, and the book is on the cusp of greatness, the edge of the cliff but, it just falls a bit flat at the last-minute.

North is the master of dualities in this book, she makes strong philosophical references to the fight between good versus evil, us versus them and familiar versus different. This is very refreshing, as it adds depth to the story and Libyrarian transcends itself from a simple YA book to a story with a bit of substance. One such binary that I found particularly intriguing was North’s creation of the Libyrarian versus the Singers. As an anthropology student I was overjoyed to read that North was giving readers the opportunity to think about knowledge, what it is, where it comes from and most of all, does this knowledge give us power? The Libyrarian had the power to read, however, they lived without electricity and weren’t able to interpret or apply the knowledge they had due to their lack of resources and tools. The ‘illiterate‘ Singers, had the resources and abilities to use machines, and understand their environment- all from their ability to pass down knowledge in songs and oral tradition. As a result, each side saw each other as the ‘barbarians’ of society, unable to ascend to their truest form of enlightenment. I call that some Darwinian bull-s*** but it is what our society is based on.

Something else that was extremely refreshing in Libyrinth is North’s inclusion of diversity. Homosexuality is referenced and not a big deal, to this I say HOORAH! We need more books where diversity is championed as a normal way of life. Also, ethnicity isn’t explicitly discussed in the book, however, Haly is described as biracial (something that I am biased over, as I am biracial as well), and the characters skin tones range from dark to olive to pale and freckled. Not bad for a fantasy book right? Did I also mention that gender doesn’t seem to be a big thing? Though the Ilysian clearly prefer women (Po describes himself as wanting to sire good daughters, wow) and the Singers prefer men (on the basis that their god, Yammon, was a man, I smell paralleling with life!)

This books is beautiful for its subtext, though Libyrinth‘s execution left me wanting. I mentioned above that the characters are flat, very one-dimensional and rushed. As a result, it is very hard to develop a bond with the people we meet along the way. Yet, the promise of greatness, being on the edge of that cliff, I think justifies the story’s rating of 4-Page-Turns.


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Libyrinth Pearl North Books Reviews

This is the first book in the series. Haly lives and works in the Libyrinth, a repository of books from the Ancients. They are under pressure from the Eradicants, who believe that the written word needs to be burned to release its voice, believing in an oral history through song. Haly is different from the others in the Libyrinth in that she can hear books. A quest to find aid, leads Haly to encounter the Eradicants and be captured. She must use her gift to try to mitigate the conflict. In her quest, she is aided by a book, the diary of a girl trapped by forces outside her control (Anne Frank) Haly and her friends must use all of their gifts and wits to find a way to save their world.
Great Y.A. Trilogy - Book 1
Nice perspective and story about the gifts we receive by reading and sharing information, as well as the take on how corruption by power can affect a society.
Loved the whole series. This was my favorite book of all and I really would read this author over and over again.
I like Pearl North's writing and the originality she brings to the story is what sold the book to me. I also like that the three protagonist girls are divided into straight, gay, and single. What I don't like is the banality of the story itself. I bought this on and tried the sampler first, it's impressive but from there on the story just gets awkward and less interesting, it becomes a story-told-before. Pearl North has a steady voice, her writing is simple and flows well, but she writes like she's not a people-person. The characters are flat. I never fell in love with them, I never felt any real sympathy/empathy/emotion towards any of them, she could have killed them all. The romance was lame and of course it was for the straight girl (originality out the door). And then the ending lacked grace and the injected violence was awkward. This story had potential, I was hoping for a book with a female protagonist and an adventure that hadn't been written before. It had all the premises of one, but it disappointed. I'd give two stars for the story but it gets three for original ideas, heroines and easy reading.
This is a wonderful book in so many ways. First of all, the characters of Haly and Selene and Clauda live and breathe on the page, and their adventures are breathlessly exciting. Second, North has managed to make the issue of literacy and knowledge a real-world challenge, with real advantages, and she has explored its opposite--blind faith--in a way that is both fascinating and illuminating. There are few black-and-white characters here, or causes; the novel compels with its dramatization of cultural misunderstandings and misconceptions, but it never, never preaches.

And the book quotes! It was a brilliant choice to list them in the back of the novel, but avid readers will have a blast picking out the ones that aren't attributed in the text. This is a book for lovers of books. I hope every young adult librarian will stock their library with plenty of copies.
Book Libyrinth (Libyrinth #1) by Pearl North
Publisher Tor Teen, 2010
Genre Young Adult, Fantasy, Bibliomania
Rating 4 Page Turns
Recommend For all the readers who like to read about books, with a touch of fantasy and a truly imaginative tale. This book is truly diverse featuring characters with a range of ethnicities, sexual orientations and genders.
Book Pro’s Amazing theme, use of strong female characters, diversity widely accepted and promoted in the book.
Book Con’s Stunted characters that don’t allow for a bond to form between reader and book.
Favourite Line “If we can understand each other, then is anything really beyond our reach?”

Cover I think the cover is moody, atmospheric and very brown. Which makes it a bit muddy, but hey, we get to see the main character, Haly, and the little imp, Nod. Mind you, it scared me when I realised what the hell that red devil looking thing was.

Setting Set in a futuristic, imaginative world, Libyrinth details a series of city states that coexist with each other and the greatest honor is to become a Libyrarian, or a scholar really. Books are heralded as living things and precious to be hold, something that causes much strife with enemies of the Libyrarian’s, the Singers, who believe that the written word is a murdered word and something to be destroyed. But is everything as it seems? What do the Singers carry out by burning books? Is their mandate to spread illiteralism? Why don’t the Libyrarians share the ability to read?

Characters The flawed characters are the greatest problem in the book. Readers hardly get a chance to get to know each character or understand their personalities, loves, hates and drives. As a result, you don’t really care what happens to each character, or yearn to know what happens next.

Review My first read in 2013! I’ve craved this book for so long. I have a weakness for something that has a touch of bibliomania, or books about books. In short, I thought this book was good-great, it has the potential to be fully great, to be amazing and stunning, a work of true poetry. Unfortunately, North doesn’t push the limits or boundaries enough, and the book is on the cusp of greatness, the edge of the cliff but, it just falls a bit flat at the last-minute.

North is the master of dualities in this book, she makes strong philosophical references to the fight between good versus evil, us versus them and familiar versus different. This is very refreshing, as it adds depth to the story and Libyrarian transcends itself from a simple YA book to a story with a bit of substance. One such binary that I found particularly intriguing was North’s creation of the Libyrarian versus the Singers. As an anthropology student I was overjoyed to read that North was giving readers the opportunity to think about knowledge, what it is, where it comes from and most of all, does this knowledge give us power? The Libyrarian had the power to read, however, they lived without electricity and weren’t able to interpret or apply the knowledge they had due to their lack of resources and tools. The ‘illiterate‘ Singers, had the resources and abilities to use machines, and understand their environment- all from their ability to pass down knowledge in songs and oral tradition. As a result, each side saw each other as the ‘barbarians’ of society, unable to ascend to their truest form of enlightenment. I call that some Darwinian bull-s*** but it is what our society is based on.

Something else that was extremely refreshing in Libyrinth is North’s inclusion of diversity. Homosexuality is referenced and not a big deal, to this I say HOORAH! We need more books where diversity is championed as a normal way of life. Also, ethnicity isn’t explicitly discussed in the book, however, Haly is described as biracial (something that I am biased over, as I am biracial as well), and the characters skin tones range from dark to olive to pale and freckled. Not bad for a fantasy book right? Did I also mention that gender doesn’t seem to be a big thing? Though the Ilysian clearly prefer women (Po describes himself as wanting to sire good daughters, wow) and the Singers prefer men (on the basis that their god, Yammon, was a man, I smell paralleling with life!)

This books is beautiful for its subtext, though Libyrinth‘s execution left me wanting. I mentioned above that the characters are flat, very one-dimensional and rushed. As a result, it is very hard to develop a bond with the people we meet along the way. Yet, the promise of greatness, being on the edge of that cliff, I think justifies the story’s rating of 4-Page-Turns.