All Our Pretty Songs
A Novel
St. Martin's Press · Print & ebook · July 30, 2013
This is a story about love, but not the kind of love you think.
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- Who it’s for
- For when you want a sustained read with romantic pull and a faintly mythic edge.
- Genres
- Contemporary YA Fantasy, Paranormal & Supernatural for Teens, Music Stories for Teens
- Published
- St. Martin's Press, July 30, 2013
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This is a story about love, but not the kind of love you think. You'll see… In the lush and magical Pacific Northwest live two best friends who grew up like sisters: charismatic, mercurial, and beautiful Aurora, and the devoted, watchful narrator. Each of them is incomplete without the other. But their unbreakable bond is challenged when a mysterious and gifted musician named Jack comes between them. His music is like nothing I have ever heard.
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It is like the ocean surging, the wind that blows across the open water, the far call of gulls. Suddenly, each girl must decide what matters most: friendship, or love. What both girls don't know is that the stakes are even higher than either of them could have imagined. They're not the only ones who have noticed Jack's gift; his music has awakened an ancient evil—and a world both above and below which may not be mythical at all. We have paved over the ancient world but that does not mean we have erased it. The real and the mystical; the romantic and the heartbreaking all begin to swirl together in All Our Pretty Songs, Sarah McCarry's brilliant debut, carrying the two on journey that is both enthralling and terrifying. And it's up to the narrator to protect the people she loves—if she can.
Mythic Current
For when you want a sustained read with romantic pull and a faintly mythic edge.
Come here for
- music-threaded fantasy romance
- keepsake-worthy YA sheen
Expect
- contemporary texture
- fairy-tale inflection
Where it sits
| Contemporary YA Fantasy | 61% |
|---|---|
| Paranormal & Supernatural for Teens | 48% |
| Music Stories for Teens | 31% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Myths & Legends for Teens
- Greek & Roman Myths for Teens
- Paranormal & Supernatural for Teens
- Authors
- Sarah McCarry
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Published
- July 30, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Myths & Legends for Teens