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A review by jimmypat
Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
4.0
This is the thirteenth book in a series I am calling "quarantine life." With all of our public libraries closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, I have turned to my bookshelves and the unread books that await me there.
I've actually read this book before - I felt compelled to return to it after really enjoying Holdstock's Merlin Codex series. There's a lot of overlap with the Merlin series and it is obvious that Holdstock is very interested in myth and creating a dreamlike setting in his novels. While not explicit in the text of this novel or in the Merlin Codex, and probably not to be implied by the author, there seems to be a subtext of the ending of myth and the rise of Christianity that I find intriguing in his work. I think the ending of this novel and it's implication of Eden is interesting. Good stuff.
I've actually read this book before - I felt compelled to return to it after really enjoying Holdstock's Merlin Codex series. There's a lot of overlap with the Merlin series and it is obvious that Holdstock is very interested in myth and creating a dreamlike setting in his novels. While not explicit in the text of this novel or in the Merlin Codex, and probably not to be implied by the author, there seems to be a subtext of the ending of myth and the rise of Christianity that I find intriguing in his work. I think the ending of this novel and it's implication of Eden is interesting. Good stuff.