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The Brides of Rollrock Island

Margo Lanagan

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Sep 13, 2012 mstan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: australian, fantasy, src-winter-2012-13

I was talking to applepuree (who couldn't get into Tender Morsels) about this; here's what I said:

"You have to be ready to immerse yourself in another world - very slowly - when you read Lanagan. There's nothing much that happens in her novels, or what happens can easily be predicted, so the point is not really to anticipate any twists and turns, or even to watch characters develop, but just to enjoy being somewhere else [to experience the intensity of feelings a totally fictional character - a ...more

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Dec 28, 2012 Agatha Donkar Lund rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy-and-scifi, fiction, young-adult, 2013

This was so creepy and beautiful and tragic and weird and awful and lovely, and unlike Tender Morsels (which was also all those things) it definitely involved less super overt rape and incest, so that was great. I loved it, but it made my heart ache and it was definitely dark and a little bit fucked up.

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