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Forster, Miriam

City of a Thousand Dolls

362 pp. | HarperTeen | February, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-212130-1 $17.99
(4) YA Sixteen-year-old Nisha, resident of an orphanage that trains abandoned girls for useful social positions (healers, assassins, mistresses, etc.), investigates a series of suspicious deaths among the girls while trying to secure her own future. Nisha's plight is well-imagined and the vaguely Asian fantasy setting holds interest, but the overly formal style slows the pace and creates distance from the characters.
Reviewer: Claire E. Gross

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