Publishers Weekly Best of Children''s Books 2012 Kirkus Reviews Best of Teen''s Books 2012 Tor.com , September 1, 2012: "I''ve not been more moved by a book in years...It’s a wistful book, but wondrous. It will break your heart, and remake it.” Starred Review, Booklist , June 1, 2012: "A haunting, masterfully crafted novel that, as one should by now expect from Lanagan, isn’t a bit like anything else." Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews , July 15, 2012: "Bracing, powerful, resonant. . . . Earthy, vigorous characters and prose ground the narrative in the world we know, yet its themes are deep as the sea." Starred Review, Publishers Weekly , July 2, 2012: "Powerful. . . . A beautifully written story featuring a thoroughly realized setting and cast." Starred Review, The Horn Book , September/October 2012: "Lanagan’s world is busily, passionately alive. Seal, human, sea, sky, and the rocks themselves animate this powerful story, a blend of folk tale and pungent, sharply observed—or invented—regionality." Starred Review, The Bulletin of the Center for Children''s Books , September 2012: "Like Lanagan’s previous Tender Morsels , this eerie, evocative story breathes mesmerizing life into familiar fairy-tale constructs as it explores issues of power, agency, culpability, freedom, and love within a deceptively quiet atmosphere of intimate horror." School Library Journal , September 2012: "Lanagan’s writing is undeniably gorgeous. Her phrases