***Review based on an Advanced Reader Copy***

Lyrical, haunting characters in an emotionally deep and complex world. Green is the only one left on her family farm the day the mysterious Horde destroys the city and condemns everyone to a technologically-deprived existence.

But her village is coming back to life, and Green feels the need to seek out the women called the "enchanted" to learn their stories and write them down in order to save a childhood friend from the Horde.

This book was so moving and so beautiful, and so.....thin. Without the background of Green's love affair with Diamond, without the deeply layered histories of the Enchanted, it just wasn't enough to move me as much as the writing had the potential to do.

This Book's Food Designation Rating: a non-fat, soy-milk, decaffeinated latte with sugar free hazelnut flavoring for being so delicious on the surface level, but lacking real substance for me.