![]() ![]() I felt that she knew in her own core what she was saying, and that it was a deliberately complex message-by which I mean "gray" rather than black-and-white. But I enjoyed that, because I felt Lanagan was in control the whole time, the master of it. Brides caused me to mull for days afterward because the meaning was elusive and sometimes contradictory. Still, I'm going to have to say Midwinterblood faltered, where Brides was much more sure-handed. (Although on the surface, the only similarity in plot is the almost dream-like existence of magic on an island that's secluded and somewhat frozen in time.) On the positive side, like Brides, there's value in any book that bothers me somewhat, causing me to think, which Midwinterblood did. ![]() I found myself thinking about Margo Lanagan's The Brides of Rollrock Island when I read this. ![]()
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