Matthew’s Reviews > Tam Lin > Status Update

After roughly 250 pages as a highly pleasant campus novel, the story is finally beginning to take the form of the Tam Lin myth. I'm not complaining, though it must be said that "I am become weary of that crew" is the most cringe-inducing line of dialogue I've encountered in a while.

Pamela Dean's old-fashioned corniness is both charming and discomfiting: men constantly calling women "my lady" and exclaiming "I cry you mercy," every nonwhite person immediately having their race pointed out, Molly wearing a dashiki. Just because she's a good-natured midwestern woman nearing middle age and fondly remembering her childhood, I don't hate it.