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A sort-of selkie tale, set in one of those Countries Gone Bad (evil miners, silly king), orphans, dark woods, and a bunch of other fairy tale tropes combined into one interesting book.
The action sequences were a bit confusing - almost as though they weren't really plotted out on a map but just thrown in as "gee, this sounds good". And the ending left me equally confused: was the prophecy finished? What actually happened to Gibbet? I'm not sure the confusion was meant...
Two things I loved: the ch ...more
The action sequences were a bit confusing - almost as though they weren't really plotted out on a map but just thrown in as "gee, this sounds good". And the ending left me equally confused: was the prophecy finished? What actually happened to Gibbet? I'm not sure the confusion was meant...
Two things I loved: the ch ...more
This fantasy debut is imaginative but disjointed. It has some really interesting elements -- the sudden nightfall, the unusually ambiguous relationships between characters -- but they didn't really come together. I felt like the author had all these ideas she wanted to write about and just shoved them all in the book willy-nilly; where they didn't mesh up she just kept going instead of working them out.
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Apr 11, 2011
Liz
marked it as to-read
