At our annual cookie exchange (which I had to miss this year because I was sick. So sad about this!), they decided on The Rook by Daniel O'Malley. It's not something I would pick on my own, but so far it's quite interesting. I haven't gotten very far (I'm hoping I get back into reading. Pregnancy and now motherhood have made we a horribly slow reader), but I'm hoping to finish it before we meet in early March. Check back later for my review, and comments from book club!
Here's a synopsis from Goodreads:
"The body you are
wearing used to be mine." So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding
when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex
gloves. With no recollection of who she is, Myfanwy must follow the
instructions her former self left behind to discover her identity and
track down the agents who want to destroy her. She soon learns that she is a Rook, a high-ranking member of a secret organization called the Chequy that battles the many supernatural forces at work in Britain. She also discovers that she possesses a rare, potentially deadly supernatural ability of her own.
In her quest to uncover which member of the Chequy betrayed her and why, Myfanwy encounters a person with four bodies, an aristocratic woman who can enter her dreams, a secret training facility where children are transformed into deadly fighters, and a conspiracy more vast than she ever could have imagined.
Filled with characters both fascinating and fantastical, THE ROOK is a richly inventive, suspenseful, and often wry thriller that marks an ambitious debut from a promising young writer.
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