Stuck in the birth canal during his birth, his prolonged entrance into the world kills his mother and earns his father’s disdain. Urlick also knows what is like to be an outsider. Since she was a little girl her hope has been being cured by her father’s Illumination machine, but when he dies before he can cure her, Eyelet seeks the machine out herself. Because of the Night of the Great Illumination, cloud cover is pervasive, forcing residents of the Commonwealth to living in often foggy conditions, terrorized by the vapour that has the ability to alter a person’s DNA.Įyelet is an outsider who lives in fear that someone will find out about her fits and send her away. Review: An epic steampunk adventure, Lumière by Jacqueline Garlick is the story of Eyelet, an eighteen year-old girl who has spent ten years living in a world where the sun doesn’t shine anymore. Together, Eyelet and Urlick embark on a journey to find her father’s journals and make the machine work in a quest for healing, but the true power of the machine proves to be darker than they could have ever imagined. Before his death, Eyelet’s father was working on a machine to cure her affliction that he called the Illuminator, and Eyelet’s quest to find it causes her introduction to Urlick, a young man afflicted with his own demons.
Summary: Plagued by mental fits that could cause her to be committed, Eyelet finds herself all alone after her father dies the Night of the Great Illumination and her mother is executed for being deemed a valkyrie.
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