![]() It is a tough environment for geeky sci-fi loving kid that I was and Morweena- the protagonist and narrator of this book-is. In fact, the setting of the boarding school resonates with me very much as a former pupil of such a school. "A teenaged girl in 1979 deals with her witch of a mother, faeries, a difficult boarding school life, and the joys of discovering science fiction and fantasy."Īny mention of boarding school and fantasy in the same sentence will tend to trigger the name "Harry Potter" in people's minds, well you can fuggedaboudit, it's just an ordinary boarding school, no Defence Against the Dark Arts classes here. ![]() So given that after reading this book you may not agree with my assessment of it (much to my astonishment) I am going into "rave mode" again.įirstly I am going steal SF Signal's one sentence synopsis: It puzzled me a bit that some people don't see the greatness of the books I deemed to be great, but then I realize that such things probably puzzle most of us, we are all arbiters of good taste in our own little universe. ![]() I previously raved about Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and then some people told me they think it's a load of ol' crap. Now and then I come across a book that is a distillation of what I like in fiction, genre fiction in particular. ![]()
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