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mrstephenconnor 's review for:
Cuckoo Song
by Frances Hardinge
A quite bizarre story that took me a while to make my mind up about - and truth be told, I’m still not sure.
Triss is taken from her family and replaced with a ‘Besider’ - a monstrous creation that can take on human form. She argues with her sister Pen, and when she starts to see things that aren’t real, she begins to question her sanity.
Pen and Trista eventually join forces in order to find the real Triss, passing from one world to another in which cinema screens eat children and birds talk to the girls.
Violet, an ex-girlfriend of Pen and Triss’s deceased brother, Sebastian, is the real heroine here, full of bravado, gumption and determination. She believes the girls when no one else will and helps them carry out their plan.
As I say, I struggled here. Language-wise, Frances Hardinge is almost without compare, but the story here just didn’t grab me.
Triss is taken from her family and replaced with a ‘Besider’ - a monstrous creation that can take on human form. She argues with her sister Pen, and when she starts to see things that aren’t real, she begins to question her sanity.
Pen and Trista eventually join forces in order to find the real Triss, passing from one world to another in which cinema screens eat children and birds talk to the girls.
Violet, an ex-girlfriend of Pen and Triss’s deceased brother, Sebastian, is the real heroine here, full of bravado, gumption and determination. She believes the girls when no one else will and helps them carry out their plan.
As I say, I struggled here. Language-wise, Frances Hardinge is almost without compare, but the story here just didn’t grab me.