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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Multi-layered and satisfying, 18 Dec 2002
An excellent book, well written, with many characters and a complex plot, set in the Cornish countryside. The fantasy element is well realized and satisfying, and it kept me interested enough to want to read more of his works. I do have a gripe, though; I found the characters just a little to good to be true. Janey is SO perfect, and SO successful at such a young (20s) age (in a notoriously un-lucrative and oversubscribed field of folk music), and she has this PERFECT relationship with her wonderful grandfather, and her ex boyfriend turns up, and guess what? he's rather unrealistically perfect, too. Implausible- though not impossible, I'll agree.
Persevere, and soon events overtake the protagonists and they are forced to be a little less noble, little more flawed, realistic, human.
An unusual work in a genre so often riddled with cliches, it reminded me slightly of Jan Siegel's 'Prospero's children'. It is also long, which is great if, like me, you are a fast reader but want to be absorbed for a little longer than the couple of hours or so it takes to read a short novel.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
It's OK...., 10 May 2004
I read "Moonheart" and "Yarrow" a number of years ago, and thought they were two of the best stories I've ever read. So, when I was surfing Amazon for more Charles de Lint earlier this month, I ordered "The Little Country", amongst others, expecting the same kind of experience.I've just finished reading this book, and although I enjoyed it, it's definitely not on a par with "Moonheart", in my opinion. My main gripe was that the main characters seem almost too peachy-perfect with their wonderful friends and relationships. My other grumble was that there are two storylines set in the same town in this book, and I found myself waiting for the two to converge, and they never actually did. This left me almost wondering whether CDL had taken two short stories from the same setting and just put them into one book. That having been said, the fantasy elements of both storylines were authentic and original, and I enjoyed the book enough that I read it in just two sittings, which is unusual for me. "The Little Country" isn't one of those novels that I will treasure and read over and over again in years to come, but it was an enjoyable read, with both storylines containing an original and interesting plot.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
excellent read watch it unfold in your imagination, 20 Mar 2001
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charles de lint knows the cornish countryside like the back of his hand if you went to the places in the book you would feel the absolute magic and power of the story. for a person who does not live there but visits regularly and feels at home you will feel like doing all the things that the characters do even going through the men a tor and chanting and the places that are in the book are all larger than life and twice as powerful in the flesh
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