A review by lecrockett
The Waking Land by Callie Bates

JULY 2017, 30% finished: Not really DNF as I DO want to keep reading this at some point...I like the Scottish Jacobite Rebellion parallel it seems to have, and the magic of nature and "steward of the land." But El's Stockholm Syndrome is really getting to me, and it's hard for me to sink into a fantasy that's already politically complicated when the narrator is unreliable and also brainwashed. Setting aside for when I have more time...