Midnight robber, paperback/nalo hopkinson

Deeply satisfying.

succeeds on a grand scale.

best of all is the language.

Hopkinsons narrative voice has a way of getting under the skin.

-- The New York Times Book Review Caribbean patois adorns this novel with graceful rhythms.

Beneath it lie complex, clearly evoked characters, haunting descriptions of exotic planets, and a stirring story.

This book] ought to elevate Hopkinson to star status.

- -Seattle Times Its Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry.

Masked Midnight Robbers waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words.

To young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival--until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgiveable crime.

Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree.

Here monstrous creatures from folklore are real, and the humans are violent outcasts in the wilds.

Tan-Tan must reach into the heart of myth and become the Robber Queen herself.

For only the Robber Queens legendary powers can save her life .

and set her free.