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Brilliant mashup: coming-of-age plus fantasy plus (and this last is always a winner for me) a retelling of a folk song.
More precisely: it's a reluctant coming-of-age [14-year-olds who sense that they're in danger of losing what each of them values most about themself]; fantasy that sneaks into a solidly real 1990s world and gradually darkens until the climactic episode; and a retelling of a fairly obscure folk song that I don't even recall hearing before.
Here's the thing: I read about a third o ...more
More precisely: it's a reluctant coming-of-age [14-year-olds who sense that they're in danger of losing what each of them values most about themself]; fantasy that sneaks into a solidly real 1990s world and gradually darkens until the climactic episode; and a retelling of a fairly obscure folk song that I don't even recall hearing before.
Here's the thing: I read about a third o ...more
Feb 13, 2014
Deedee
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
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young-adult-fantasy-and-sf,
young-adult
Feb 25, 2016
Jennifer
marked it as to-read
