Eyes Like Stars, by Lisa MantchevYA, 2009
Publisher's Description:
Bertie Shakespeare Smith is not an actress, yet she lives in a theater. She's not an orphan, but she has no parents. She knows every part, but she has no lines of her own. That is, until now.
Welcome to the Theatre Illuminata, where the actors of every play ever written can be found behind the curtain. They were born to play their parts, and are bound to the Theatre by The Book - an ancient and magical tome of scripts. Bertie is not one of them, but they are her family - and she is about to lose them all and the only home she has ever known.
Trackgeek:
While the fantasy elements of the book are a bit quirky (the theatre contains the characters to all of the plays ever written), as long as they stay confined to the theatre itself the premise seems to work. The only frustrating part is still feeling like you are left in the dark with a resolution that in my mind could have taken about another half a page. I would have been pretty happy without a sequel.
Graded a B-.
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