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  <title><![CDATA[Clouds End]]></title>
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  <default_description>A story of divisions and unions, of opposites and identities, and a modern-minded homage to one of fantasy's best-loved authors. At the heart of this ambitious novel, the slow, though mortal, competition between Brook and her haunt-twin Jo reverberates through everyone around them and through the war that unbalances their world. Though at story's end equilibrium is attained, we have learned how fragile that is, and, setting the book down, the reader can guess at the characters' future and value their present peace in a way that they cannot. Stewart's mythically rich world of lives and stories is engrossing, and the cleanly lyric prose is at times breathtaking. Memorable characters, a world of wonders, and solid plot make the best fantasy, and &lt;B&gt;Clouds End&lt;/B&gt; contains all.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I tried reading this years ago, when I first discovered Stewart, but was put off by the language.  This time it fell perfectly into place with my other reading, and I devoured the novel quite rapidly.  It's dense and peculiar and structured very unusually for a novel -- which I guess shouldn't surpr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32980858">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nice, nice, myth and mist and mystery.  The ending was ambiguous, but I'd like to know if Brook or Jo survived... I was rooting for the haunt, actually.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Decent high fantasy in a strange world pulling itself out of a mist to weave knots and waves together in a small and large story. A young woman by the sea is twinned by a haunt and she and her friends go on an adventure to end a war. (March 15, 2006)]]></body>
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