The Drowning Girl
India Morgan Phelps-Imp to her friends-is schizophrenic. Struggling with her perceptions of reality, Imp must uncover the truth about her encounters with creatures out of myth-or from something far, far stranger...
India Morgan Phelps-Imp to her friends-is schizophrenic. Struggling with her perceptions of reality, Imp must uncover the truth about her encounters with creatures out of myth-or from something far, far stranger...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780451464163 (0451464168)
ASIN: 451464168
Publish date: March 6th 2012
Publisher: Roc Trade
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Paranormal,
Urban Fantasy,
Speculative Fiction,
Horror,
Magical Realism,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness,
Glbt,
Dark Fantasy,
Ghosts
Ever read a book so good that you start writing the review in your head before you even finish the book? For me this was one of those books. I've been hooked on Caitlin R Kiernan ever since I did a search on Amazon for lesbian urban fantasy and her name came up with Silk, Murder of Angels and The Re...
If you pick this up thinking it’s a charming fantasy or even a gothic horror novel you may be disappointed. Like Kiernan’s The Red Tree (which I loved), it has eerie leanings but at its core it’s more an intimate and unflinching look at a person’s struggle with insanity. It revisits several of the s...
I've been putting off posting a review for this book until after my book club meeting - this was one I needed to talk about. It is rare that I'm so conflicted about how I feel about a book, as I am with this one. After some excellent discussion I think I've finally gotten a handle on why I'm so ambi...
I'll admit it: I don't understand this book. I couldn't tell who was speaking sometimes, I don't understand how the Evas fit (or their relationship to Imp), and I don't understand even whether there WAS a narrative arc, let alone whether it was good. The nonlinear structure didn't help in this regar...
Got halfway through. This is a book for literary specialists I suppose. There was barely a plot and it was so overemphasized that the narrator was unreliable that I didn't get hooked by anything that was written. It is definitely not scary, not horror, not creepy, etc.This book received the Tiptree ...
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