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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is pretty perfectly calibrated to be up my street... Two siblings in modern America inherit their great great grandmother's house on chicken legs and set out on an adventure through backroads Americana pursued by the spectre of their familial and historical trauma.
I'm glad I have a "modern real world but magic/gods are real" book I can recommend that isn't American Gods. This scratches some of the same itches but is a more focused and coherent story, it plays with the structure of folktales and the many incarnations of a character like Baba Yaga.
It's fabulous in every sense.
I'm glad I have a "modern real world but magic/gods are real" book I can recommend that isn't American Gods. This scratches some of the same itches but is a more focused and coherent story, it plays with the structure of folktales and the many incarnations of a character like Baba Yaga.
It's fabulous in every sense.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Antisemitism
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This story beautifully blends folklore, historical tragedies, and familial drama together to create something entirely original.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Antisemitism, Murder
Minor: Racial slurs, Racism
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
One of my absolute favorite reads of the year. It ticked all the right boxes for me—sibling dynamics, magic puppets, folklore, lovely prose, flawless (in my opinion) character arcs. Dark and bleak at the right times, but beautiful and hopeful overall. I finished and immediately wanted to read it over again.
Great audiobook narrator, too!
Great audiobook narrator, too!
A beautiful story. I went into it thinking it was going to be another fantasy, but it was a lot more about stories and cultures. It also touched on healing from the past and not running from it. It was a wonderful story and I really recommend it!
dark
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes