ejimenez 's review for:

The Rust Maidens by Gwendolyn Kiste

4.0

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Creepy, sad, and strange.

Spoiler

Perhaps the oddest part of this book is the way it never gives us anything of Phoebe's life from 18 to 46. We know she left home, and that she didn't go to Case Western, but nothing else - and nothing from those 28 years, more than half of her life, seems to have made any impact on her at all. She doesn't seem to have left anything - or anyone - behind to return to Cleveland in the 2008 part of the story. This makes her seem almost as alien as the Rust Maidens - like she's been held in abeyance all this time, frozen and waiting. I don't know what to make of it, any more than I know what to make of the rest of this haunting story.