Abigail’s Reviews > The Willows > Status Update

“I raked the fire together to prevent the darkness having everything its own way.”

“The willows were against us.”

“[…] until this moment when it began to play the great river-game of losing itself among the deserted swamps, unobserved, unrestrained, it had seemed to us like following the growth of some living creature.”

Was already in the middle of a book, but this one grabbed me. As soon as I read the premise I went “Oh, this must have been the inspiration for The Hollow Places by Kingfisher.” I love the author but that particular book? Meh. Now let’s read the original! Onward!