A review by lory_enterenchanted
Midnight Is a Place by Joan Aiken

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense

5.0

Nostalgic favorite from childhood, though it is VERY dark. A pastiche II think I can credit with sparking my later love of real Victorian literature. I like how Lucas and Anna-Marie's relationship developed, while finding a lost grandmother who provides nurture and shelter in an ice-house is the best kind of Aikenish mixture of cozy and bizarre.  

In the post-election disaster scene of 2024, I also thought about what the book taught me is that evil, dysfuctional systems and institutions are reflections of the unhealed souls of their leaders. I think events are more and more proving this thesis correct.