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Fathom

Cherie Priest (Goodreads Author)

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Published December 9th 2008 by Tor Books (first published November 25th 2008)

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Feb 18, 2010 Juushika rated it liked it

Shelves: status-borrowed

Nia and her unstable cousin Bernice flee into the ocean, one to be captured by a water witch who wants to awaken the sleeping Leviathan and bring on the apocalypse, one to be rescued by a disgraced god who is not yet ready for the end of the world. With the broadest scope of Priest's novels, Fathom has the potential to be her best work yetbut for want of a protagonist, the novel flounders. Neither a fun read nor particularly meaningful, the book is a disappointment and I don't recommend it.

I've Nia and her unstable cousin Bernice flee into the ocean, one to be captured by a water witch who wants to awaken the sleeping Leviathan and bring on the apocalypse, one to be rescued by a disgraced god who is not yet ready for the end of the world. With the broadest scope of Priest's novels, Fathom has the potential to be her best work yetbut for want of a protagonist, the novel flounders. Neither a fun read nor particularly meaningful, the book is a disappointment and I don't recommend it.

I've read four of Priest's prior novels, and she's generally a very technically skilled writer with tight plots, solid characterization, and plenty of detail. Her books are swift reads, have an interesting Southern Gothic flair, but for the most part they're forgettablefor all their technical skill, they lack the vital artistic spark which would make them meaningful. Fathom (like Dreadful Skin, my favorite of Priest's novels) has the potential to break that mold: from country girls to elder gods, with more lyrical prose than Priest's usual, the book spans a vast range and could have great nuance and meaning.

But Fathom does not succeedin fact, it's my least favorite of Priest's novels. What the book needs is a protagonist. It offers plenty of potentials, but none of them work out: one is actually an antagonist, one's a sidekick, one is too mysterious, and the intended protagonist is encased in stone (literally!) for half of the bookand when freed, she follows directions more than she thinks for herself. The book jumps between points of view and temporary protagonists, preventing the reader from making an emotional connection to the story or characters. Without a sense of action and anticipation, the book seems to lack purpose despite the strong plot. Fathom may be ambitious, as stories of elder gods often are, but it doesn't actually say much other than "let sleeping gods lie."

There's no outright reason to avoid Fathom. It has a lot of potentail: unique mythology and magic, uncommon characters, an intriguing premise, gritty detail and brutality, and a promising mix of lyricism and plot. But all in all, though the book isn't outright bad it fails to be easily readable (as many of Priests novels are) or deeply meaningful (as this one could be), and so it is something of a disappointment. Priest reaches further with Fathom and I commend that effort, but she reaches so far that her great technical skill fails herand that artistic spark never emerges. I wanted to enjoy this book, but I didn't, and I don't recommend it. ...more

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Dec 11, 2008 Kara Babcock rated it it was ok

Shelves: 2009-read, fantasy, historical-fiction, owned, pirates

As a caveat, I found the description on this edition of the book quite misleading. Its tone is glib. Phrases like "task force" and "add in a hapless fire inspector who's just trying to get his paperwork in order" cultivates a tongue-in-cheek feel that made me expect a zanier book than Cherie Priest delivers. So if you're basing your decision to read the book on the description, don't be surprised if Fathom defies your expectations.

That's essentially Fathom in a nutshell: it defies expectations. ...more

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Jul 26, 2009 Reading Sarah rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, myths

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Mar 12, 2009 Angela rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy

Cherie Priest's Fathom claims on its inner flap that it is "quite unlike anything you've ever read", and I'll give it this, it's right.

Nia is visiting her cousin Bernice and other family members on a island in Florida when Bernice unexpectedly commits a crime--and when Nia refuses to help her cover it up, the two of them are in turn ambushed during their struggle by a water goddess bent on using Bernice to further her aim of awakening a being even older and more powerful than she. Nia is transf Cherie Priest's Fathom claims on its inner flap that it is "quite unlike anything you've ever read", and I'll give it this, it's right.

Nia is visiting her cousin Bernice and other family members on a island in Florida when Bernice unexpectedly commits a crime--and when Nia refuses to help her cover it up, the two of them are in turn ambushed during their struggle by a water goddess bent on using Bernice to further her aim of awakening a being even older and more powerful than she. Nia is transformed by an earth elemental, and set against Bernice and another human that the water goddess transformed. After several years the two cousins are reunited to discover they're on opposite sides of the struggle between the powers. And Bernice realizes that maybe she's not so much a supporter of her water-witch creator's agenda after all.

While Fathom does maintain a good pace, it's nonetheless a subtler and lower-key story than a lot of what gets sold in urban/contemporary fantasy right now. There's nary a vampire or werewolf or were-anything to be seen. While the lead female characters are vibrant and interesting characters, they aren't the "ass-kicking bounty hunter/witch/zombie-raiser" archetypes you see all over the urban fantasy landscape right now. There isn't a breath of romance anywhere in the story, which is a period piece, set right around when the Depression is getting underway, rather than in the present day. And the monsters of this story are primal, elemental beings--gods setting off against each other and using human pawns to further their agendas. There's a mythic air to this novel that I just don't find in a lot of my current reading, and it was a pleasure to see.

Priest's overall voice in the story was a bit hard for me to follow at times, but this isn't a bad thing; it actually contributed to the feel of this story as one that's more about the conflict between the elemental creatures Arahab and Mossfeaster than it is about Bernice or Nia or any of the other human characters that show up during the course of the plot. The rhythm of the prose is unusual, too--strange and heavy in places, like Nia, transformed into a daughter of stone. So if you take a stab at this one, mind your feet going in, and look out for bodies of water. Four stars. ...more

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Nov 02, 2013 Nicky rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy

Fathom isn’t my favourite of Cherie Priest’s books (the honour for that goes to Bloodshot and Hellbent, by an awful long way), but it was an interesting read. It felt somewhat… inconclusive, because in the end, nearly all of the actions of the book mean nothing. One character in particular just seemed to be there to be described in a quirky way in the summary (“add in a hapless fire inspector who’s just trying to get his paperwork in order”). It was particularly odd because it wasn’t a quirky so ...more

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Feb 27, 2009 Mike rated it it was amazing

Cherie Priest is an author better known for Southern Gothic fiction and, despite its Florida locale, Fathom is a slight deviation from that area. Fathom certainly makes use of Priest’s familiarity with that genre but places more emphasis on the fantastic elements and overarching plot than on the setting and atmosphere of the story. In essence Priest trades elements of horror for elements of the fantastic to craft a story more in vein with Charles de Lint than say Edgar Allan Poe.

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May 20, 2020 Thomas rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: e-book, 2020, fantasy

I've not read all of Priest's works (yet), but Fathom feels different from everything else I've read of hers. I know it's an earlier work, but it's her fourth novel, the first outside of a series that she wrote, and I was expecting Big Things from it. In some ways, that's what I got; it's about Elder Gods and timeless beings with more power than humans can fathom (see what I did there?), and how they pull in acolytes to do their bidding. In other ways, though, it isn't that at all.

For one thing, ...more

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Apr 12, 2011 Alice rated it really liked it

Shelves: library, 2011, urban-fantasy, horror, favorites

It's difficult to judge how much I might have enjoyed a book by how quickly I read it. Some books I slog through, but, generally, the less I'm enjoying it, the faster I read it so I can be done. But sometimes, I come across a book that has tight tension and good characterization that's anything but a chore to finish, and I keep absorbing words until I'm out of pages. This book was definitely the latter case; I was disappointed to be done. Not because the plot wasn't resolved (it was), but becaus It's difficult to judge how much I might have enjoyed a book by how quickly I read it. Some books I slog through, but, generally, the less I'm enjoying it, the faster I read it so I can be done. But sometimes, I come across a book that has tight tension and good characterization that's anything but a chore to finish, and I keep absorbing words until I'm out of pages. This book was definitely the latter case; I was disappointed to be done. Not because the plot wasn't resolved (it was), but because it meant I had to say good-bye to the characters and the world.

The plot follows the plans of Arahab, a semi-deity of the sea who wishes to wake Leviathan, who sleeps beneath the Earth and whose waking will wipe out humanity. For that purpose, she recruits José Gaspar, a nineteenth-century pirate, and Bernice, a young woman whose spoiled nature quickly goes beyond breaking plates to committing murder.

Meanwhile, in a twist I took for punishment for refusing Arahab's offer of immortality, Nia, Bernice's cousin and witness to murder, is locked into a statue, helpless to do anything but observe and feel. The situation matched so many of my nightmares that I couldn't leave the book there; I had to read another couple of chapters that didn't focus on her helplessness and eventual mental numbing just to get to sleep.

Luckily, Nia is not left there. She's actually undergoing a metamorphosis within that shell of stone, and, luckily, awakens before Arahab's plans have fully come to fruition. One might argue it's a little too coincidental, but one hopes the one responsible for putting her into the stone shell would know enough for her to be done before it's too late.

In fact, all of this comes about just in time, and then it's a race to save the world before Leviathan wakes. Priest puts the reader into the moment, invoking all five senses without bogging down the action with boring description. There's a lot going on in that climactic scene, but I was able to follow it just fine.

Priest also keeps from bogging down the book with boring intermediary scenes that show relationships developing, which made me feel a little lost in the middle parts of the book. There are several relationships that develop between the start and end, but that I didn't entirely understand the dynamics of, because their development was left out. It's probably best that they're left out, because they would've dragged the book down, but it felt like listening to a couple you don't know bickering over breakfast, at times.

Oddly, though I know little of the Leviathan mythos, that part didn't lose me. The barest facts are conveyed, and the character who knows the pertinent bit shares it in essential tidbits without lecturing us or his audience. The dialogue never felt forced or like the characters were talking for our benefit.

Overall, I enjoyed this book more than Boneshaker, which I read around this time last year, and which took me a lot longer to get through. If Priest had been able to replicate the pacing and immediacy of that book the way she did Fathom, I think I would've enjoyed it a whole lot more. ...more

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Jul 23, 2009 Jukka added it

Fathom - Cherie Priest

Very strange plot, definitely grabs you. Mythic fantasy. Light reading.

This is a difficult genre to write. There is a thin line in making believable fantasy. There are moments when this book slips, but Priest brings it back, which gives it just a little camp edge, probably intentionally. Most certainly Priest is a clever writer, who is pushing some boundaries here, twisting events in unexpected ways.

I can't recomend this unreservedly, but i was pleasantly amused.

Priest is Fathom - Cherie Priest

Very strange plot, definitely grabs you. Mythic fantasy. Light reading.

This is a difficult genre to write. There is a thin line in making believable fantasy. There are moments when this book slips, but Priest brings it back, which gives it just a little camp edge, probably intentionally. Most certainly Priest is a clever writer, who is pushing some boundaries here, twisting events in unexpected ways.

I can't recomend this unreservedly, but i was pleasantly amused.

Priest is clearly a talented author, and i look forward to where she goes with her writing.

This book would work well with readers 12 and up. No sex. Some violence, but a clear line between good guys and bad guys, and the moral lines of violence.

I reread this -- I've been thinking about the Mossfeaster after reading Vessel and Solsvart by Berit Ellingsen, which is really excellent by the way, and you can go find that on-line.

Some short excerpts from both works for comparison of Mossfeaster and Vessel. Very mild spoilers follow.
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Characters: Nia, Mossfeaster, Sam, Bernice, José, Arahab

BTW: Bok Tower and Garden is for real!!! ...more

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Oct 29, 2010 Shannon rated it it was ok

Shelves: fantasy, fiction, 2010-reads

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. If pressed to sum up "Fathom" in one word, that word would be "anti-climactic." On one side of the plot there's the wicked, murderous Bernice, her companion and adopted brother, Jose, and their "mother," the sea witch Arahab. On the other, there's , Bernice's cousin Nia, rescued from drowning and transformed into a fast, powerful creature "made from stone; the shunned outcast creature Mossfeaster; and Sam, the paper-pusher who just wanted to go home. One side tries to bring about the end of the ...more

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Mar 29, 2010 Christine rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy-myth-and-fairy, fantasy-urban, minority-and-women-writers

I love Borders (can I say that?). I really do. Here's why: When they have an educator's week, they mean all educators, not just k-12 grade. I love that.

It helps because I am addicted to book buying. I can't buy just one book. It doesn't work. I swear the book gets lonely by itself in the bag. It starts to cry. It's very sad.

Anyway, I picked this help during educator's week in part because it sounded more interesting than Boneshaker and because it was educator's week.

Ms. Priest, I'm buying your o ...more

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Sep 29, 2009 Brooke rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy, 2010

This was my least favorite Cherie Priest book I've read, although I don't mean to suggest it's bad by any means. It's an interesting fantasy novel that I read in two sittings and enjoyed, but it's also a book filled with characters that lacked purpose. Some "elementals" take hold of humans to have them do their bidding, but even after all the supernatural intervention, the humans don't really achieve anything. When I read a fantasy novel, I usually go into it assuming that the good guys will sav ...more

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Feb 25, 2009 Tamora Pierce rated it it was amazing

Duelling powers, one water, one earth, take over cousins as they drown in the 1930s. Arahab, a water goddess who wishes to wake Leviathan and destroy the world to gain his favor, remakes the murderess Bernice to survive in the water and through time. Mossfeaster fixes a cocoon of stone around Nia and waits for her to become as stone, to be a fitting player in opposition to Bernice and her goddess.

It's . . . beautiful, creepy, alien, familiar, and sweeping, all together. I loved the servant of Vu ...more

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Nov 13, 2010 Sarah rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, contemporary, dark

This book is blessedly weird.

Read my full review here:

http://bookwormblues.blogspot.com/201... ...more

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Jan 25, 2009 Miss Ginny Tea marked it as dnf_2009

Shelves: authors_marginalized-gender

~260 pages in and I just don't care. ...more

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Sep 09, 2017 Hallie rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I'm having a hard time reviewing this book because I feel like I never really understood it. The prose is fine, even lyrically pretty at times. The plot progresses without stalling out, although I wouldn't call it fast-paced, necessarily.

I guess it's really the pacing that I had a problem with. I was never sure who the book was supposed to be about, since it jumps around constantly and at random. The whole thing felt uneven.

Was it about Nia, possibly the only sympathetic character? Was it about ...more

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Jun 07, 2017 Steven Cole rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This is essentially the story of Nia, a teenage girl in early to mid 1900s Florida, her transformation into something supernatural, and her battles with ancient gods.

I loved the world that Priest painted here. I was absolutely sucked into this place and felt the prose just flowed as the world was described. That ability to suck me in is really why I've rated this book so highly. The environment was enchanting. The supernatural creatures were at times creepy and other times fascinating, but they ...more

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Oct 16, 2020 Sandra Guerfi rated it it was ok

Shelves: magical-realism

Ancient Gods and Goddesses waging an ongoing battle. Humans stand in the way, playing their own little games. Sometimes casualties happen and that's where our adventures begin. As opposing entities converge two cousins become pawns of a feud that will destroy life as they know it and future generations will be entangled in their snare as well. What ripples affect can never be the same again and in this story Priest reaches out to land and sea and shows us exactly how small we are. A tale full of ...more

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May 25, 2018 Laura rated it liked it

Shelves: monsters, cthulhu, fantasy, fanfiction, apocalypse, transformation

Lovecraft meets elemental fantasy. Lot of mythic promise lurking in the premise. One ancient goddess wants to wake Cthulhu. One ancient god wants to keep singing the lullaby that keeps him asleep. One dark night each gets a cousin to transform into something rich and strange. Bells are rung. We swap steam-punk for flappers. Also there is an insurance guy and a firetruck.

It's soothing in its way, and a good bus book. If there was a little deeper level, I did not see it. ...more

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Jun 14, 2019 Jeff Frane rated it really liked it

It definitely took some concerted effort to get through the early pages of Fathom but I have enough confidence in Cherie Priest that I stuck it out. Once the framing got out of the way and the plot really got rolling it was a treat. Wildly inventive and lovingly brutal, the story hooked me completely.

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Jun 26, 2017 Cecilia Rodriguez rated it liked it

Priest's story weaves mythology with the paranormal in a dark
fantasy set in 1930's Florida.
There are very subtle influences of: Poe(The Bells), Lovecraft and Melville. ...more

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Apr 08, 2018 Laurie Clark rated it really liked it

What a page-turner! I couldn't put it down. ...more

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Apr 21, 2018 Sonja P. rated it liked it

Not my favorite priest

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Oct 08, 2016 Jean rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, horror, fantasy, historical-fantasy, fantastic-females

I've liked Cherie Priest for a little while now; ever since my brother's girlfriend handed me a copy of Boneshaker, I've been trying to pick up as much of her work as I could, finishing the Clockwork Century series, and reading the Cheshire Red books (which I wish, wish, wish that she'd return to.) Fathom always appealed, because it was a standalone, and I picked it up and put it down about three or four times over the past few years. Working out my Halloween TBR, I thought it was finally time.

T I've liked Cherie Priest for a little while now; ever since my brother's girlfriend handed me a copy of Boneshaker, I've been trying to pick up as much of her work as I could, finishing the Clockwork Century series, and reading the Cheshire Red books (which I wish, wish, wish that she'd return to.) Fathom always appealed, because it was a standalone, and I picked it up and put it down about three or four times over the past few years. Working out my Halloween TBR, I thought it was finally time.

The beginning was slow going, admittedly. It took me a couple of sit-down sessions to really get into it, but once I did, I tore through it.

I loved the setting. You don't find many historical pieces that take place in twentieth century Florida, let alone historical fantasies. Priest writes about the locales with affectionate knowledge, and highlights the Gothic qualities of the Sunshine State.

I adored the characters. Though this is also the source of the only real complaint that I have, because I feel like... Priest always gives the illusion of her books being deeply about women. Women are always at the heart of them, to be sure. But I feel like they get less development than the men; there is never a time when we get anything from Bernice's POV, despite the fact that she's (arguably) one half of the book, and with all of her plotting, and mental machinations, I'd have loved to spend one twisted moment in her head, to get a feel for the way she thought about... well, anything really. There's a point where she tells Nia that she always has her reasons but she didn't know if they were valid to anyone else or if her cousin would even begin to understand. Okay, so show me.

I felt like Bernice could have almost have been, in, say, Gillian Flynn's able hands, a deeply complex and interesting character, if never sympathetic. There's too much of the feminine (and psychotic) mystique to the author just saying, OOOH, it's a mystery, you'll never understand! But I want to. Especially at the end when she accidentally... er, does something really harsh. I suppose we're meant to think it's nothing to her, but even if it is, I want to know. I want to read it from the author. She does seem genuinely horrified, whether for angering Mother to the point where the water witch is prepared to kill her, or for the act itself, or maybe both, we don't know. We can infer, but...

I think we're supposed to be flatly happy that horrifyingly violent and nasty things happen to her, but it just kind of made me sick. I wasn't entirely down with it, though I definitely think she deserved a comeuppance and a half. She just seems pathetic at the end, and adding violence to that was just sort of stomach-churning.

The book gets better with this in its second half, when Nia "hatches." And while I'd been truly enjoying the book before that, that's when I decided it was a favorite. She's a sweet, sort of haplessly likable heroine, and the horrors she endures during the story feel all the more hideous for it. Sam, Mossfeaster, Edward, Jose--they're all enjoyable characters to read about, if not all entirely the most sympathetic. And not all that deserve to live will. People you like will die, and people you don't like will live. And if I had one complaint about that, it would be that the two deaths are abrupt, considering how much investment you build in each character.

All in all, it's a completely original fantasy about the war between elementals, working in tiny bits of Lovecraft mythos, in an almost-modern setting. It was a completely unique book, and surpassed even Boneshaker as my favorite work of Priest's. ...more

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Feb 07, 2011 Andrea rated it it was amazing

It's so much easier to explain what I don't like about books than what I do like about the ones I love. But I enjoyed Fathom enough that I feel compelled to make the effort.

This novel feels like a chip off a larger diamond of a story: something incomplete, sharp-edged, yet glorious. It follows the supernatural adventures of farm-girl Nia: her introduction to a sea-witch/goddess bent on destroying the world, her transformation into a creature never before seen on the earth, and her attempts to fo ...more

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Sep 14, 2012 grammarchick rated it really liked it

Shelves: mythology, recommended

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. As you can see from my other reviews, Cherie Priest is firmly planted at the top of my Authors Y'all Should Be Reading Already list. If you're not much for steampunk or psychics, try Fathom, which is about
a battle between Elementals to save humanity and the humans who are "called into service" to help.

Arahab is a water witch, capable of manipulating oceans, lakes and even puddles. For millenia, she has plotted to awaken the Leviathan sleeping at the center of the earth. She's been searching for ...more

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Sep 15, 2015 Natalie Carey rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy-paranormal-supernatural, horror, from-the-library, read-in-2015

Hmmm... Many mixed feelings about this book. It's my first Cherie Priest, and I have a couple of her other books that I'm really anxious to read (Maplecroft, Four and Twenty Blackbirds), and I really loved her writing style, descriptions, and language, but I just didn't love this as much as I thought I might. I'm not a fan of the ocean, which probably should've sent up a red flag, but there were other things I didn't like either. The characters felt flat and a bit forced, and I especially didn't ...more

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Oct 17, 2010 Kelly rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-in-2010

This was one of those books that I had to let percolate for a bit before I could review it. It's oddly haunting and, while much of what happens is hard and harsh and brutal, you still come out of it with a pale feeling of optimism. I'm also finding this book difficult to classify. It's part horror story, part transformative tale and partially an ode to the old Gods. The Gods who roamed the earth before mortal man was a twinkle on the skin of the world.

Cherie Priest's writing is lyrical and has g ...more

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Jan 09, 2009 Garret Reece rated it really liked it

I read this book in one sitting, too engrossed to remember the tea I'd left steeping or that (for the first thirty minutes) I should probably sit down. I've read Four and Twenty Blackbirds, also by Cherie Priest, and it was good, but it was nowhere near as good as this.

This book makes me want to geek out in so many ways. It's a story that clearly references myths and mythical characters, but itself follows many of the elements of myths; the cyclic nature, the importance of kin, the notion of fam ...more

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Jan 30, 2010 Catherine Siemann rated it really liked it

It was strange to read this book directly after Lovecraft: awakening elder gods! Ending the world as we know it! A church with some very odd goings-on, connecting to a much earlier belief system than Christianity. But Priest's novel has a very different feel -- mythic but somehow very much connected to everyday life, with a solid sense of place and (early 20th c.) time. There are two sets of characters, Arahab the water witch and her adopted children, the no-longer-human Bernice, once a spoiled ...more

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Cherie Priest is the author of two dozen books and novellas, most recently The Toll, The Family Plot, The Agony House, and the Philip K. Dick Award nominee Maplecroft; but she is perhaps best known for the steampunk pulp adventures of the Clockwork Century, beginning with Boneshaker. Her works have been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards for science fiction, and have won the Locus Award (amo ...more