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A review by frasersimons
Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
3.0
Interesting concept, very strange, muddied execution. For a story about stories, it seems more preoccupied with inserting elements that remove agency and surprise, rather than weave something organic and thematically on point.
I didn’t even really buy any of the characters, but the strength of the prose and the sort-of gothic fantastical over story kept me reading anyways. Because there are many stories I thought this one would have something meaningful and interesting to say, yet, as I said, it was more interested in a particular story and the casting of specific, but generic roles.
Surprising ending. But that doesn’t equal good. In fact one part made me laugh out loud. Then it was sound enough, for a plot in which the protagonists only purpose is to be a puppet on a string. Like I said: concept and prose carry it to the end, then it fumbles, pretty much.
I didn’t even really buy any of the characters, but the strength of the prose and the sort-of gothic fantastical over story kept me reading anyways. Because there are many stories I thought this one would have something meaningful and interesting to say, yet, as I said, it was more interested in a particular story and the casting of specific, but generic roles.
Surprising ending. But that doesn’t equal good. In fact one part made me laugh out loud. Then it was sound enough, for a plot in which the protagonists only purpose is to be a puppet on a string. Like I said: concept and prose carry it to the end, then it fumbles, pretty much.