I Read Stories: House Of Honeyed Soil by Natalie Wollenweber
House Of Honeyed Soil by Natalie Wobbenweller in Gigantosaurus Amelia now runs the family farm, Hunter Lane. Famed for it’s honey of course, but there’s more, a cockatrice whose eggs are rare because of the deadly gaze. Other fantastic birds. And the fields where workers, and Poppet the living scarecrow, tend the plants the bees rely on. Amelia’s magic is weak and poor, but she’s the one who inherited it when her brother and sister died. They attracted people, made the farm popular. Her cousin Primrose comes to visit. Primrose has real power, water magic. She has ideas for the farm, now that Amelia’s brother and sister are gone. She brings her friend Wendell who has his own thoughts. Amelia can’t turn her away. She’s family. Amelia isn’t that kind of person. And there are secrets on the farm, secrets she doesn’t want dug up. Atmospheric, with much to say about family and duty, about unwelcome guests, and about the care of bees (and cockatrice). Read This: Story about ho...
