I could have saved myself a lot of time if I had known from the start of this that 'The Motion of Puppets' was a retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice. This was a bizarre novel, Kay falls in love with a puppet standing in a closed-up Antique Doll store she passes on her way home every day. One night, ...
Weird.And not the good weird that takes you places. No, the just plain weird that didn't work for me. I am finicky about ghost stories though.Seriously, I kept reading on, all the while thinking it would go somewhere. It did't though.I did love the idea behind the story. How it was trying to piece t...
I've had this standing on my tbr-shelves for ages, and finally got around to reading it. Unfortunately it wasn't quite as good as I had expected, although still good enough to hold my attention nicely the few days it took me to finish it.The book is really two intertwining stories, with every second...
Intriguing twist on the world of fantasy. I was totally engrossed in this book from page one. The narrator switch from hobgoblin/child to child/hobgoblin was a delight to me, I loved hearing the different viewpoints of their parallel yet wildly differing worlds especially along the points where they...
This unique novel mixes surreal lit fic and dreamy historical fiction to make a (mostly) compelling story about love, loss, responsibility, and moving on. The reader and the unnamed narrator are plunged immediately -- from the first paragraph -- into the same confusing mystery: what happened to him...
Keith Donohue is a new-to-me author, though I have The Stolen Child sitting on my shelves (and it's been sitting there for a while now). But I couldn't turn down the opportunity to check out his latest, Centuries of June. I mean, the blurb had me at "black comedy about a man who is attempting to t...
Henry Day is an average seven year old child, if a little sullen. Angry at his mother, and wishing to punish her, he runs off into the woods and ceases to be an average child. Stolen by the changelings, creatures of the woods, who prey on innocent children, stealing their lives, he is fated to wai...
To be totally honest, this book was really outside my forte and I didn't enjoy it. It had been recommended to me and I knew it was one that was outside my typical genre, so I am probably not the best judge of this book
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