All the Crooked Saints

Imagine that in one small desert town, there can be a myriad of seemingly magical people such as a priest with the head of a coyote, a giant, and a woman covered with butterflies who cannot fly away from her because it is always raining on them. This is only some of the magic that lies within Maggie Stiefvater's novel All The Crooked Saints.

In Bicho Raro, there are certain members of the Soria family who have the power to grant miracles to pilgrims who come looking for hope, drawn to the saints and their miracles just as the hundreds of owls who reside there. However, being cured is not so easy as the pilgrims must first face and conquer the darkness within themselves, which usually turns them into a fantastical creature. Many of the pilgrims go years without realizing how to conquer the darkness within and some even give up. When Daniel Soria, the current Saint of Bicho Raro, falls in love with one of the pilgrims, it is at a terrible price, and his cousins must attempt to uncover the origin of the Soria curse that threatens not only Daniel, but those who care about him the most. A tale of magical realism that is sure to appeal to those who enjoy fantasy literature with a Latin influence.