Half-Sick of Shadows
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780552166706 (0552166707)
Publish date: May 23rd 2013
Publisher: Corgi
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
OK, that was really weird. I'm not sure that I got the point. If there ever was a point. The one thing I know is that I didn't read the book the blurb led me to expect. I might have somewhat liked it without the alternate universe travel stuff (whose role was just so insignificant it might as well n...
Two stars for Half-Sick of Shadows, because it was...well, bizarre is the word that springs to mind.I bought it because a) the title just happens to be one of my favourite lines of poetry ever, and b) it said "Winner of the Terry Pratchett Prize" on the front. So that was basically sold on me before...
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and could see why it picked up the Terry Pratchett Prize. The prose is quick and clever. This is not a young adult novel, though. The plot takes a very dark turn quite rapidly in the second half of the story, and although the ending initially threw me (not telling, you...
Half-Sick of Shadows is one of those books that left me unsure of whether I had actually enjoyed reading it or not. After having read Apocalypse Cow by the other Terry Pratchett winner, Michael Logan, I wasn't sure what to expect - only that it would be, at the very least, whimsical, and in that sen...
That rating would have been 3.5 stars if possible but since it's not I've decided to round it up. 3 stars would be to severe.This has to be one of the strangest books I’ve ever read even if it started straightforward enough.Edward lives in The Manse, at the end of The Lane where a cemetery is the ba...