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    Iron Cast

    By Destiny Soria

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    It’s Boston, 1919, and the Cast Iron club is packed. On stage, hemopaths—whose “afflicted” blood gives them the ability to create illusions through art—Corinne and Ada have been best friends ever since infamous gangster Johnny Dervish recruited them into his circle. By night they perform for Johnny’s crowds, and by day they con Boston’s elite. When a job goes wrong and Ada is imprisoned, she realizes how precarious their position is. After she escapes, two of the Cast Iron’s hires are shot, and Johnny disappears. With the law closing in, Corinne and Ada are forced to hunt for answers, even as betrayal faces them at every turn. An ideal next read for fans of Libba Bray’s The Diviners.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherABRAMS
    Release dateOct 11, 2016
    ISBN9781613121528
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    Destiny Soria

    Destiny Soria spent her childhood playing with sticks in the woods and exploring such distinguished careers as Forest Bandit, Wayward Orphan, and Fairy Queen. In later years, she ran away to New Zealand for seven months, where she backpacked across the wilderlands, petted fluffy sheep, and gave tours of a haunted prison. Nowadays she lives and works in the shadow of the mighty Vulcan statue in Birmingham, Alabama. www.destinysoria.com. Twitter and Instagram: @thedestinysoria. Facebook: @dlsoria.  

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    • 4/5
      Corrine and Ada have been an inseparable, unstoppable force for years. The two hemopaths – persons whose unique biology gives them the ability to influence people through their art – found refuge in the Cast Iron club under the wing of Johnny Dervish. Together, the two weave their arts for entertainment and profit to unparalleled effect. However, 1919 Boston is on the brink with the vilification of hemopathy and prohibition on the ballots. Corrine and Ada's stability and relationships are challenged through betrayal, murder, and encroaching pressure from the authorities.Debut author Destiny Soria has written a wonderful debut novel in Cast Iron. The cast is diverse, both in race and social class, and while perhaps a bit rosier than historical 1919 Boston, the unique challenges of being black and a hemopath are addressed. The Corrine & Ada duo is immensely satisfying. Both girls have their own personalities, challenges, and relationships but the primary focus is their friendship and the power that comes from it. Each young lady has a romantic relationship – in varying states of maturity – but neither beau detracts from the friendship. Instead, these relationships enhance the personalities and understanding of all invovled. The betrayals in the book are a bit expected, but the book's resolution is quite satiating, even if it isn't the tidy bow some readers will desire. These characters don't live in a land of good and evil, but rather a greyscale world that is remarkably realistic, hemopathy aside. A great read for young adults and adults alike; highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      Corrine and Ada have been an inseparable, unstoppable force for years. The two hemopaths ? persons whose unique biology gives them the ability to influence people through their art ? found refuge in the Cast Iron club under the wing of Johnny Dervish. Together, the two weave their arts for entertainment and profit to unparalleled effect. However, 1919 Boston is on the brink with the vilification of hemopathy and prohibition on the ballots. Corrine and Ada's stability and relationships are challenged through betrayal, murder, and encroaching pressure from the authorities.Debut author Destiny Soria has written a wonderful debut novel in Cast Iron. The cast is diverse, both in race and social class, and while perhaps a bit rosier than historical 1919 Boston, the unique challenges of being black and a hemopath are addressed. The Corrine & Ada duo is immensely satisfying. Both girls have their own personalities, challenges, and relationships but the primary focus is their friendship and the power that comes from it. Each young lady has a romantic relationship ? in varying states of maturity ? but neither beau detracts from the friendship. Instead, these relationships enhance the personalities and understanding of all invovled. The betrayals in the book are a bit expected, but the book's resolution is quite satiating, even if it isn't the tidy bow some readers will desire. These characters don't live in a land of good and evil, but rather a greyscale world that is remarkably realistic, hemopathy aside. A great read for young adults and adults alike; highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      IRON CAST by Destiny Soria is an engaging fantasy with elements of mystery and an emphasis on friendship.This fast-paced alternative history weaves a diverse cast of fascinating characters into an absorbing story exploring the world of an underground club. The author tells the story of friendship in a world of hemopathy and paranormal activity. Librarians will find teens attracted to the social issues addressed in this alternative universe. Fans of The Diviners by Libba Bray will be happy to find another paranormal elements set a similar historical setting.Published by Amulet on October 11, 2016. ARC courtesy of the publisher.
    • 5/5
      If you're at all into creepy evil asylums, sneaky ensemble con jobs, or excellent female friendships, this book might be the perfect fit. Neatly plotted with wonderful characters and a fantastic magic system, it was a great read. The world-building is vivid and the story has plenty of twists, so even if you see where a few are going, there's bound to be one or two that you guess incorrectly. It also has a few genuinely dark and spooky moments that I didn't see coming, making it a great read for Halloween!
    • 5/5
      I loved this book a lot more than I ever could have predicted. If you have any interest at all in a YA historical fantasy with a focus on female friendship, you should read this book.Ada Navarra and Corinne Wells are best of friends who preform together at the Cast Iron nightclub in Boston, the year of 1919. But their performance is no usual routine, for Ada and Corinne are hemopaths – people who’s afflicted blood gives them magical abilities based on the arts. Ada can affect people’s emotions with her music and Corinne can use her poetry recital to craft illusions. But it’s not easy to be a hemopath in Boston of 1919. Performances have been outlawed and while the club still performs illegally, Ada and Corinne have been running cons to make ends meet. At the beginning of Iron Cast, Ada has been captured and imprisoned in one of the institutions designed to be the “humane” solution for the hemopath “problem.” But that’s only the start of the pair’s trouble.Destiny Soria brilliantly creates her vision of a magical, 1919 Boston. I felt utterly transported into her setting, and while I’m not an expert on the time period, her version rang true to me. Iron Cast takes you from shadowy clubs to splendid ballrooms, and every moment was wonderful. I also really loved the magical system of the book. I’ve seen various other versions of “art as magic” stories, but Iron Cast is undoubtedly my favorite. Soria’s writing really conveys the beauty and emotion of her protagonist’s artwork.Speaking of emotion, Iron Cast got me so emotional! I don’t think I’m normally this caught up in a story. When things looked bad for our protagonists, I felt panicky and on the edge of my seat. I had to know what happened next! The beginning may have been a bit slow, but by the second half I was practically glued to the pages.However, the main highlight of Iron Cast was the relationship between Ada and Corinne. It’s unusual to see friendship treated as this important and powerful, especially between female characters. I adored it. I love how much these two girls love each each other and support each other. Together, they are an unstoppable force, and I couldn’t get enough of it.Not only were Ada and Corinne well developed, but the supporting cast was strong as well. I’m writing this review two weeks after reading the book and I can still remember the names of the supporting characters. This is huge for me. I’m also happy with how diverse the cast was in terms of race, gender, and sexual orientation. Ada’s mixed race, and the difficulties of being black and female in 1919 aren’t glossed over. Oh, and doesn’t she look so beautiful on the cover? Honestly, cover love is what drew me to this book in the first place.Iron Cast isn’t exactly a heist book per se, but it had enough of those elements to keep me happy. While the story stands alone, I hope that Soria decides to write a sequel because I’d love to return to this world and these characters. This is one of those books where I’ll be enthusiastically pushing my copy onto my friends, begging them to read it. I can’t recommend it enough, and I am excited to read whatever Soria writes next!Originally posted on The Illustrated Page.