A review by infowitch
Merrow by Ananda Braxton-Smith

4.0

I loved so much about this - the place, the nature of story, the realness of Neen's struggle to make sense of her circumstances, the tales within the tale, the gentle flashes of humor, the tension between Christianity and paganism. So it killed me with the needless anachronisms. In the year 900-something (because Vikings and near the millennium), they didn't have figs or almonds on the Isle of Man. I want to give this five stars, but every time one of these references cropped up I was tossed out of the story and it just spoiled this nearly perfect little novel.