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A review by be_like_the_squirrel_girl
The Boy Who Lost Fairyland by Catherynne M. Valente
4.0
A troll is turned into a Changeling and sent to Chicago in the latest installment. Valente is my favorite fantasy author; her writing is so vivid it gives me sensory overload when she describes the colors and textures of Fairyland.
Here's one of my favorite passages: "School-time runs separately from usual time, like a certain country on the other side of the Equator, or the other side of a dream. School-time spins up and sputters and whirlwinds, all hopped up and in a hurry. Only once Summer comes round again, with its bindle full of adventures and bendings of rules and unwatched, unfettered, unending days in the sun does time return to its favorite pace, slow and golden and warm. But with the seasons, Summer disappears, off on its own wanderings and exploits and love affairs with the Equinoxes."
Here's one of my favorite passages: "School-time runs separately from usual time, like a certain country on the other side of the Equator, or the other side of a dream. School-time spins up and sputters and whirlwinds, all hopped up and in a hurry. Only once Summer comes round again, with its bindle full of adventures and bendings of rules and unwatched, unfettered, unending days in the sun does time return to its favorite pace, slow and golden and warm. But with the seasons, Summer disappears, off on its own wanderings and exploits and love affairs with the Equinoxes."