A review by dhb1964
The Onion Girl by Charles de Lint

3.0

This is a long book, or at least it seemed that way to me since I listened to it on my Ipod. It's not something that I would normally have picked up, I'm not that into fantasy stories, but this was actually an interesting combination of "real life" and a "dreamworld" that the characters can cross over to by various means and forms. The majority of the story is set in a big town or small city, and starts with the main character, Jilly, being hit by a car. She is seriously injured and confined to a hospital bed. From there the story takes off and takes you through poor rural towns, Los Angeles, the fictional city of Newford and of course the mystical dreamworld. The characters were all interesting especially the "good girl" Jilly and her "bad girl" sister, Raylene. The concept of an onion is used not only as a literary device but also as a way to describe the lives of Jilly and Raylene and their feelings and emotions. I would probably give this a 3.5, with my one issue being that the book dragged in parts and seemed to repeat the same theme multiple times.