Five Stars - "WOW... This book drew me in instantaneously... beautifully written and wholly captivating. Breeze is a fantastic heroine, rising above herself and her situation... I was rooting for Breeze from the beginning, her story holding me in it's thrall until the final pages." -Semisweet Book Blog
Four Stars - "This story was very captivating. The main character Breeze is well developed, going from a shy girl that is an outcast to a determined young woman with a dream she will not stop trying to fulfill, no matter the dangers that lie ahead. Sedgwick beautifully creates this other world that as a reader you totally get into." -Goodreads reviewer
Five Stars - "I won this book on First Reads, and I was very excited to read it... This is a beautifully written book with an intriguing plot and a loveable main character. This is certainly one that I will reread!" -Goodreads reviewer

Synopsis:

Breeze is an outcast, a half-breed orphan born into a world torn apart by a thousand years of war. Breeze never knew her elven mother, and when her human father is recalled to the war, he leaves her in the safest place he knows: in the care of a reclusive tinker.
The Tinkerman's inventions are frightening at first -noisy, smelly, dangerous machines with no practical use- but when the war comes home, Breeze sees an opportunity. If she can pull it off, she'll change the world forever. If she fails, she'll be considered a traitor by both lands and will be hunted to her death.