The Marked Girl
Written by Lindsey Klingele
Narrated by Amanda Dolan
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Worlds collide in Lindsey Klingele’s debut young adult novel, The Marked Girl, an exciting fantasy tale turned upside down. Elissa Sussman, author of Stray, calls The Marked Girl “a magical debut with a big heart.”
When Cedric, crowned prince of Caelum, and his fellow royal friends (including his betrothed, Kat) find themselves stranded in modern-day LA via a magical portal and an evil traitor named Malquin, all they want to do is get home to Caelum—soon. Then they meet Liv, a filmmaker foster girl who just wants to get out of the system and on with her life. As she and Cedric bond, they’ll discover that she’s more connected to his world than they ever could’ve imagined…and that finding home is no easy task.
The Marked Girl has humor, heart, and harrowing adventures, perfect for fantasy lovers and reluctant fantasy readers alike.
Lindsey Klingele
Lindsey Klingele, author of The Marked Girl and its sequel, The Broken World, as well as The Truth Lies Here, was raised in Michigan and now lives in Los Angeles. She has worked in television, in addition to writing YA novels. You can visit her online at www.lindseyklingele.com.
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Reviews for The Marked Girl
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Liv is busy with her friends making a movie in downtown LA when three strangers in nightclothes and with a sword suddenly appear during an earthquake. Cedric, Merek and Kat escaped through a portal from their home on Caelum when the castle was invaded by wraths. Cedric is Crown Prince and Kat is his betrothed. In the confusion of the earthquake, Liv's prop sword is switched for Cedric's sword. A couple of months pass before Liv decides to donate the sword to a museum. She has an appointment with a curator who keeps her waiting. While she is exploring the museum, she catches sight of Cedric and follows him into the depths of the museum. When he shows her the way out, they are attacked by wraths. Since Liv's foster mother had a medical problem, she is without a foster home and the refugees from Caelum need a better place to live too. They find themselves in an abandoned house while they try to piece together the whole story. Cedric needs to find some scrolls to open a new portal back home. Their research leads them to a university professor who just happens to be a member of the group of knights who are determined to keep the portal closed so that neither wraths nor guardians can come to Earth. Now the kids, who now include Liv's best friend Shannon, are on the run from both the knights and the wraths. This was an exciting adventure story that is clearly the first book in a trilogy. It has danger. It has romance. It has a search for family and home. I enjoyed it very much.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A supernatural, science-fiction novel, The Marked Girl is book one.Liv Phillips hasn’t had an easy life. Her parents died in a fire, and she and her two siblings were separated and sent to different foster homes. Liv has a decent foster parent who allows Liv a lot of freedom and doesn’t abuse her. Eventually Liv wants to work in movies, so she spends time filming with her friends for class. On one such filming, it seems that suddenly three figures appear. She sees one of her borrowed swords with these people and goes to retrieve it when an earthquake occurs. She retrieves the sword and the three run off. Unfortunately or fortunately, the sword isn’t Liv’s sword. Cedric, Kat, and Merek are nobles. The Wraths capture them. As they are being led to the cells to be with their parents, they run to escape and go through a “portal” for lack of a better word. They find themselves in Los Angeles, but they know nothing of Earth. They escaped danger, but now they need a plan to take down the wraths, free their parents and restore order, but they can’t accomplish any of these goals without finding a way home. They find a safe place hiding beneath a museum, which is where they encounter Liv again who has come to donate the weird sword to the museum.Liv, Cedric, Kat, and Merek are now working together because the wraths have targeted Liv after seeing her. Liv’s past and her siblings all play in a role in what’s happening between these two worlds. Earth doesn’t want magic and the earthquakes are the consequence of the hole that opens between worlds where magic can enter. The novel is a fast-paced tale where the teens must discover the mystery of the past to deal with the present and make a plan for the future. The characters don’t have much depth, but they are interesting. There isn’t anything that really sets the novel apart, but I didn’t mind reading it as a pleasant diversion.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I've read several YA books where characters from another world, or from the past end up in our time and must cooperate with teens here to survive/get home/accomplish an important task. This stands near the top of them. Interesting players from both worlds, intricate plot, several surprises along the way and a cliffhanger finish. I ordered book two as soon as I closed the cover on this.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Conventional, but good. Nothing out of the ordinary from your typical YA fantasy: mysterious/cute boy from Other Realm with a big problem, Special Snowflake Everyday Girl who learns she can save them all. Good characters, decent plot. If you're in the mood for something familiar, try it!