VergeHad me gripped from start to finish timely, horrifying, and hugely entertaining Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Dance Tree and The Mercies The day Rowena Murray was born, 250 starlings fell like stones from the sky. Ever since, she has been marked by Death. First the visions; then her boyfriend died suddenly; now her father, too. Salvation, Rowena is told, lies to the North: in Culcrith, where her grandmother can save her from the curse. Her