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Hayley is a young orphan living with her grandmother, whose strict rules and serious manner have whittled all the fun out of Hayley's life. Luckily, her grandfather loves to teach her the oddest things--including a glimpse at the "mythosphere". From that first glimpse, Hayley is drawn into the magical game her cousins play in secret. The children keep the game (in which they travel to various mythological places) a secret from their older relatives, but slowly their game is revealed to be part o
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The idea of the mythosphere was really cool, although I would like to have seen even more disparate myth systems intermingling. This is a novella, and it might have been the abbreviated length that contributed to some of my problems with the book: the ending seemed very abrupt, and I thought Hayley would have had more intense emotional reactions to some reveals/character introductions than she did. Quick read.
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Not one of her best, but nothing she does is terrible. I thought the way the characters slid from ordinary people into mythical roles was the best part.
Great return to form, reworking of myths, charming.
This sounds great!
Dec 05, 2008
Bette
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