Although Urlick is sullen and his house is full of secrets, Eyelet soon realises that she needs to work with him if she is ever to get the machine operational. Unable to escape due to the encroaching deadly vapours, she reluctantly finds herself in the care of the thief – a disfigured youth by the name of Urlick Babbit. Hitching a ride on the back of his carriage, Eyelet soon finds herself stranded in a subterranean mansion in the woods.
With pendant in hand, Eyelet sets off in search of her father’s stolen Illuminator but discovers it just in time to see it being stolen. When her mother is executed for witchcraft, she leaves one item in her daughter’s care – a glowing pendant that holds the ability to save everyone. Over the years that follow, Eyelet dreams of completing her father’s work. On the same day, a brilliant flash lights up the sky and the sun fails to rise again. Her father tries to develop a machine called the Illuminator that will cure her, however he dies before it can be completed. Afflicted with seizures since childhood, her parents have gone to great lengths to hide her condition from the world to prevent their daughter from living out her days imprisoned in an asylum.
The story is the first book in The Illumination Paradox series and is followed by Noir (2015).Įyelet Elsworth lives in a world where witches are punished by death and the mentally ill are treated like monsters. It is a science-fiction/fantasy novel that focuses on a teenage girl who is searching for a machine that will cure her debilitating seizures. This review is brought to you as part of the Virtual Book Tour for Lumière, hosted by Xpresso Book Tours.
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