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LovelyMurrell
Apr 13, 2017LovelyMurrell rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I really love Holly Black. I think she is a great writer and she is really good at word building and her characters are very believable and well developed. I enjoyed the darkest part of the forest. I like to believe that there is a town somewhere and folks accept a bit of strangeness as just apart of life. I think that there were bits of the plot that never got resolved, maybe she did that on purpose to make room for a series that may or may not ever happen. At any rate I love how magic and fairies are used as a back drop to explore complex family relationships. As usual Ms Black has a diverse cast of characters, which I think adds to the richness of the story. I think in the case of Jack and Carters family it took me a second to realize they were Black ( well maybe not the dad) until she mentioned their Ibo granny. I think she was trying to do what Neil Gaimen did in Anasi Boys where everyone's default was Black unless he specified otherwise. I think this works better when you have a bunch of Black characters instead of just three or four. At any rate I figured it out and Im glad I did, it made me like the story a bit more. I love Hazel and how she developed over the story. She and Bens relationship was so rich and complicated but in the end they came through for each other in true sibling fashion