Reviews

Mending the Moon by Susan Palwick

jerseygrrrl's review

4.0

Take this in the best possible way: it hurt to read this book. It's about unimaginable loss and deep grief. Reading about such suffering is hard. I cried along with the characters as they dealt with their world being ripped apart.

Palwick nails the tone and rhythm of mourning. It's painful, but hopeful since we track the characters through experiencing intense suffering to finding ways to continue living. Palwick's writing is beautiful, her plotting understated and spot-on. A beautiful, difficult, brave book. Recommended for anyone dealing with grief or trying to understand mourning.

survivalisinsufficient's review against another edition

3.0

Really not sure what to think about this one. She's always a good writer, but like [b:Flying in Place|768121|Flying in Place|Susan Palwick|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1312042359s/768121.jpg|869551], it's a hard topic (dealing with a murder), and I didn't really like the comic piece - just kept getting stuck on how stupid it seemed.

ahsimlibrarian's review

5.0

"I keep thinking about Melinda's book group at the library. I was there once when some woman asked why Melinda wouldn't let us read murder mysteries. She could have been one of my students: 'Why do we have to read all these serious books?' Idiot. And Melinda said, 'I don't want to read about people dying horribly, especially in books that aren't supposed to be serious.' She said, 'Those books turn senseless, violent death into a puzzle with a neat solution: once you've caught the murderer, the puzzle's solved, the world's safe again.' She said that was fundamentally dishonest." (pg 74-75)