Matthew Dickerson's world, as featured in The Gifted, is involved and intricate and it's clear a lot of work has gone into creating it. I enjoyed reading about Elynna and her band and the troubles they faced in defeating the evil in their world ... or trying to, anyway. I liked that the protagonists...
I picked this book from the New Books shelf at one of my libraries because I was intrigued by the title and because they had chapters on Ursula le Guin and Philip Pullman (whose Golden Compass books I had just finished reading). It wasn't until I started reading that I realized the authors were evan...