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A review by incipientdreamer
The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
3.75
For a debut novel, this is really really good. Literary Speculative Fiction is one of those niche genres that either works wonderfully for me or either crashes and burns. I really enjoyed the nostalgic and melancholic feeling this invoked in me. Scott Alexander Howard's writing is very beautiful and also easy to read. The premise of the book is also very ingenious and it gave me all the Studio Ghibli Your Name vibes I was hoping it would give me.
The story is full of emotions and very readable and short which makes for a quick fun book. I really liked how Howard played with the concept of time travel and the ending was very satisfying in the end as well. Would love to see a film adaptation of this someday. One thing that I should mention is that there are no speech marks to mark dialogues which I assume was a stylistic choice to make the book sound more "literary" but it might bother some readers. Really glad I read this and really glad the library had this so soon after release. Will be keeping an eye out for this author.
The story is full of emotions and very readable and short which makes for a quick fun book. I really liked how Howard played with the concept of time travel and the ending was very satisfying in the end as well. Would love to see a film adaptation of this someday. One thing that I should mention is that there are no speech marks to mark dialogues which I assume was a stylistic choice to make the book sound more "literary" but it might bother some readers. Really glad I read this and really glad the library had this so soon after release. Will be keeping an eye out for this author.