A review by reallifereading
The Wood Wife by Terri Windling

3.0

I have to admit that around the first couple of chapters, I was wondering if I should adhere to my first 50 pages rule and give up as it was nearing 50 and I was a little uninterested in her writing. But I was on a long-ish bus journey and needed something to drown out the TV Mobile (yes we have TVs on the buses in Singapore). So I persisted and I'm glad I did. It's quite a fascinating plot and somehow it made me think of Murakami's Kafka on the Shore a little (of Nakata and the cats). But I wasn't totally enamoured with the writing, which I think tended to tell more than show. I felt disconnected from the characters. And that, as well as the plot, made me race through the book rather quickly.