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Eight years ago, Emmie Silvey was born on Halloween during a full moon. Raised in Providence by her widower father, she's a strange, yellow-eyed girl, plagued with visions of impossible worlds and fabulous beings. Inextricably linked with a violent young woman named Soldier, together they must face the monsters and unearthly forces that have shaped their lives...and threaten their futures.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
First, I agree with the author that this is not a horror novel. Yet it certainly is a "dark" brand of fiction. I am sure it stands alone well, but it also takes a good deal of the cast and settings from Ms. Kiernan's earlier works. Those familiar with her work will have noticed a tendency to be more "accessible" in recent novels. The very good news of this new book is that she manages this without losing anything of her amazing use of language and literature or serious twisting of characters already known to us. Her telling has become a lot "clearer" in the sense that more issues are explained and/ or resolved. While it has been said about her earlier works that her characters in the dark struggle for the light, the reader can now actually see that there is a light - somewhere. However, the dark, the mysterious, and the brutal tones of her vision have remained. Still, if you are into clinical, graphic descriptions of gruesome bloodshed, explosions etc., you are wrong here despite a good deal of these processes going on. In addition to the developments mentioned, she also took on the challenge of writing a large proportion of a rather adult book from a child's perspective, holding the tension in two narrative threads for a good part of it and delivering a plot with numerous twists and turns (turnarounds, really). And she comes out the winner.
Although different from previous works, long-time fans will enjoy it and newcomers will suddenly wake to her rich and strange dreams. It makes an excellent starting point to travel them.
Although different from previous works, long-time fans will enjoy it and newcomers will suddenly wake to her rich and strange dreams. It makes an excellent starting point to travel them.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Just cant get into this as her other books, dont know if its me or just not up to her usual wickedly wonderful fiction
0 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book expecting a good read, instead I found it to be both dull and uninvolving. One doesn't care a bit whether the main protagonists
live or die, and it becomes quite a chore just to keep on reading this book, but I persevered to the end.
If you are hoping for a whiff of Lovecraftian horror, you will not find it here. I would much rather recommend The throne of bones by Brian McNaughton, for those readers looking for( pardon the Pun ) ghoulish horror.
live or die, and it becomes quite a chore just to keep on reading this book, but I persevered to the end.
If you are hoping for a whiff of Lovecraftian horror, you will not find it here. I would much rather recommend The throne of bones by Brian McNaughton, for those readers looking for( pardon the Pun ) ghoulish horror.
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