'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. “ a world with so much possibility and so much beauty, woven with an adept style that really does convince that Caitlin Sweet is a formidable new talent.” This is a standalone book written in 1st person POV, about Nola, a common girl who has a strong talent to see into someones future. Nola is born into poverty in Sarsenay City. It is the rare reader who could read this book and be unaffected―or unscathed.” Read 57 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Yet the richness of the world, the complexity of the main character, and the intensity of her tragedy evoke memories that linger for a long time. It should have been a relief to awaken from The Pattern Scars, after all its horrors. Canadian fantasy author Caitlin Sweet was born in Montreal but lived in Lausanne, Switzerland from the. “Caitlin Sweet’s shimmering prose, already apparent in her debut novel A Telling of Stars, reaches new heights in The Pattern Scars, which is so replete with luminous images and an evocative atmosphere that even now, a week later, these sensations still haunt my memory as if they had been real, a country I visited and would return to again.

From the first sentences Sweet demonstrates her craftsmanship by translating the reader into a richly and perfectly realized world, populated by people who are very human despite extraordinary and sometimes dark abilities. The Flame in the Maze is a book of both horror and beauty, conveying each with equal, delicate precision.” It would be very easy to wax poetic about Caitlin Sweets, The Pattern Scars. “These books infuse the myth of Theseus with the haunted complexities of a labyrinth, made the more unsettling by Sweet’s sensuous prose.

The Pattern Scars by Caitlin Sweet