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“God’s gone. I was his firstborn. I am your master now.”There’s something very wrong with Lily Wright. Gripped by a mysterious illness, and with strangers opting to jump from windows rather than speak to her, Lily concludes that she’s been demonically possessed. Yet the truth is far darker than she imagines, and Lily soon discovers a world haunted by a past that won’t stay dead. Trapped with an inescapable new identity, Lily finds herself at the heart of a ten-thousand-year-old love story, an apocalyptic war between Heaven and Hell, and a rivalry that dates back to the dawn of time.
J. V. Defnas lives on the edge of Dartmoor with two labradors, Rowan and Kotze. A historian by trade, Lightbringer is their debut novel. When not writing, Defnas can be found wandering through bookshops, walking the moors, or wondering what the dogs are staring at in the basement.
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There's something genuinely addictive about Lightbringer, so don't be surprised if you (like me!) find yourself devouring all 500 pages of this smart, funny book in two or three sittings. Lightbringer's cast of fascinating, well-written characters are swept along by confident, beautifully-crafted prose and plot twists so ingenious that it's hard to believe that haven't come from the pen of Rowling or Pratchett.
The story's spectacular events centre around protagonist Lily, an unashamedly flawed yet massively relatable teenage girl, who provides a welcome antidote to the wholesome heroes so typical of YA literature. All too often, YA novels inhabit a world where the boundaries between good and evil are absolutely and unmistakably defined. Yet in Lightbringer, morality is far from black and white, and Lily's realisation of just how arbitary the definition of 'right' and 'wrong' can be is thrilling to read. I haven't been this captivated and challenged by a story's philosophical and theological dilemmas since reading Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata's Death Note. Like the manga series's anti-hero Light Yagami, Lily is a bright and beautiful teenager bestowed with power that corrupts her sense of self - and, as with Light, you find yourself rooting for her, despite knowing that you really shouldn't (NB: please, somebody make a manga series about Lightbringer! It would be so good.)
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