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A review by aellatgirl
The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany
4.0
The rating, for me, is somewhere between a four and a five. Five because of the poetic feat that this book represents. The prose in this book is amazing. Pretty and rapturous as anything I ever read from Dunsany, but without the weaknesses of The Book of Wonder, where the narration was so busy with being pretty that it lost all sense of movement or tempo.
However, I think it's undeniable that the plot of the book is stretched very thin, and it is occasionally bogged down by episodes that take up more space than they contribute to the story (i confess my mind was wandering during the unicorn hunting scenes.)
All in all, delightful book to read, and I suspect even more delightful to thumb through from time to time, as a little treat after reading a serious, tersely written novel.
However, I think it's undeniable that the plot of the book is stretched very thin, and it is occasionally bogged down by episodes that take up more space than they contribute to the story (i confess my mind was wandering during the unicorn hunting scenes.)
All in all, delightful book to read, and I suspect even more delightful to thumb through from time to time, as a little treat after reading a serious, tersely written novel.