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A review by reader_fictions
A Song for Ella Grey by David Almond
3.0
A Song for Ella Grey is like the lovechild of the Orpheus myth and a Francesca Lia Block book. Until I started reading this book, I’d have said there wasn’t anything out there like a Block book, but, had I not known who had written it, I would have sworn up and down that A Song for Ella Grey was by her, not David Almond. Obviously, it is by Almond though.
The writing is strange and beautiful. It’s confusing but in this way that’s oddly engaging and hard to resist. It’s like Orpheus’ lyre music, tempting even to death.
The story’s also sex positive and there’s a lot of homosexuality and a bisexual love square thing. I’m not sure what I was supposed to ship, but definitely Claire and Ella, rather than Orpheus and Ella.
It doesn’t happen very often that I finish a book and feel like I didn’t understand it, but this is one of those times. Like, I put the book down, and I’m not even sure what the ending was, which then means that I don’t really get what the point was. I am really at such a loss to discuss this one because I swear it went over my head.
At the same time, though, I enjoyed reading it. I’d recommend it if you’re at all curious, because it’s definitively unique. And if you totally get it, please tell me what the heck the ending meant.
The writing is strange and beautiful. It’s confusing but in this way that’s oddly engaging and hard to resist. It’s like Orpheus’ lyre music, tempting even to death.
The story’s also sex positive and there’s a lot of homosexuality and a bisexual love square thing. I’m not sure what I was supposed to ship, but definitely Claire and Ella, rather than Orpheus and Ella.
It doesn’t happen very often that I finish a book and feel like I didn’t understand it, but this is one of those times. Like, I put the book down, and I’m not even sure what the ending was, which then means that I don’t really get what the point was. I am really at such a loss to discuss this one because I swear it went over my head.
At the same time, though, I enjoyed reading it. I’d recommend it if you’re at all curious, because it’s definitively unique. And if you totally get it, please tell me what the heck the ending meant.