A review by drewsof
The Wood Wife by Terri Windling

4.0

Such a throwback, in a great way. This book *feels* very early-90s in a simple way, in a "cellphones would change this" way, in a "genre blurring hasn't quite gone mainstream" way. It's predictable (not a bad thing) at times, particularly around the revelations of who is who... but Windling gets a lot of mileage out of some *really* destabilizing chapter endings, particularly in the early going, that keep the reader off-kilter for a while. And then the last hundred pages or so go whole-hog into the wild in ways that I really, really enjoyed.