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Fascinating that the author assumes secularism is an inevitability of sapient evolution. That assumption, particularly when presented without any support, seems like a tenet of faith frankly...

Good, but a step down in quality from the previous entry. Also, you can FEEL Holly Black trying to cut corners by aping Rowling, right down to having the Dumbledore-figure tell a pointless tale of his own gay love affair to the young male protagonist...

This was another disappointment from Kingfisher. The more of her horror i read, the harder a time I have tolerating it. Liked "The Twisted Ones," felt let down by "The Hollow Places," and now I've simply endured "What Moves the Dead." And I can't help but think that here she's using today's whole Pronoun fad to cover for what is otherwise a very thin, very uninspired retread of a very tired trope.

Not enjoying this. It is too derivative, too twee, and FAR too modern despite its attempts at presenting an alternate fin-de-siecle Europe. What is happening is ENTIRELY too obvious and the "horror" elements are too few and far between -- it spent more time on pronouns and 21st century gender politics (again in what is supposed to be fin-de-siecle Europe) than on the location or the actual threat.

Oh joy. Fashionable Pronouns. I will miss this fad about as much as I miss bell bottom jeans and frosted tips.