Special thanks to NetGalley and ABRAMS Kids, Amulet Kids for sharing this amazing digital weekend for sharing this digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest thoughts. Overall: it was addictive, well written, enchanting fantasy! I highly recommend it! What if she has to pay with her life to pay her entire debt! She feeds her loom with a drop of her blood in exchange of creating those marvelous pieces but when her loom turns into something more malicious than Little Shop of Horrors’ blood sucking Audrey- the flower! bean-nighe: Scottish spirit.Īnd miraculously her dreams start coming true:Her broken loom gets fixed! She keeps creating dreamy masterpieces as number of her distinguished client keep climbing! And now she met a mysterious, wealthy stranger offering her a lifetime opportunity she cannot refuse!

Only thing Ella wanted was gaining her independence, opening her own store, paying her debt, sharpening her tailoring skills for creating extraordinary pieces in expanse of making a deal with a spirit: washerwoman a. I love moving, compelling, though provoking stories with powerful, tough, inspirational leading characters like Ella is portrayed in this book! Such a stunning story about Celtic spirit Bean-nighe with feminism vibes! until she begins to notice the loom taking more from her than she offered.Īs she becomes entangled in the lives of the city’s rich, swept into Callum's allure, and trapped by the Bean-Nighe’s magic, Ella must figure out a way to secure her future while she still has a future at all. At that party, he's so mesmerized by her talent, he offers Ella a place to live and patronage for her art. It seems like Ella's fortune is finally turning for the better. And when she brings two bolts to a rich client, she meets a mysterious young man named Callum and bargains for an invitation to his exclusive party. All she has to do is feed the loom a drop of blood each time she weaves-a small price to pay for such magnificent silks. The loom is fixed, and she's creating beautiful pieces she could have never imagined before.

She, like everyone, has heard about the old washerwoman spirit called the Bean-Nighe who will grant any one wish-for a price.īut Ella is desperate, so she asks the Bean-Nighe to fix her loom. In order to buy her supplies she goes into debt of her own, and when her loom breaks, Ella realizes she needs more help than a repairperson can give her. She dreams of opening her own shop, but when her father died in debtor’s prison, she had to support herself by taking whatever clients she could get. A dark and enthralling story about a young woman who makes a deal with a spirit to try and gain her independence-and the twisted price she has to pay for itĮlla is a 17-year-old weaver whose entire livelihood depends on her loom.

Stalking Shadows by Cyla Panin