On her trek to escape execution, she finds a clue to where her father hid the Illuminator, or Lumière, and discovers a thief towing it away into the night. A machine that is introduced in the very beginning and is somehow meant to cure her seizures. Angry with her father for leaving before he could fix her, she is determined to find what is called an Illuminator. In addition to all of the challenging events in her life, Eyelet considers herself defective because of her condition and even questions why she was born at times. I really feel for Eyelet and so many characters in this book. After her mother is accused of Wickedry, a crime punishable by death, Eyelet sees her mother just long enough to be given a mysterious glowing necklace and a plea to live.

Eyelet suffers from seizures, an illness that is associated with madness and therefore extremely dangerous. Searching for the truth about her father and the Night of the Great Illumination, she is met with horrible events that take her down a troubled path with seemingly no one to support her. This book starts out as such a tearjerker! From the very beginning of this book, Eyelet is met with so many challenges in her world. Determined to follow the thief and recover the machine, she ventures into the deepest, darkest, most dangerous part of her twisted world.

But Eyelet’s late father’s most prized invention, the Illuminator, has been missing since the day of the mysterious flash-a day that saw the sun wiped out over Brethren forever.Īlone and on the run, she finds the Illuminator-only to witness a young man hauling it away. After her mother is accused and executed for a crime that she didn’t commit, the now-orphaned Eyelet has no choice but to track down the machine-her last hope for a cure. She’s hidden her secret affliction all of her life-a life that would be in danger if superstitious townspeople ever guessed the truth. Seventeen-year-old Eyelet Elsworth is no stranger to living in the dark. Even in a land of eternal twilight, secrets can’t stay hidden forever.

Lumiere by Jacqueline Garlick