deservingporcupine 's review for:

Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman

4.0

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Sometimes a book is slow and not bad. That’s this book. I started it and returned to it three separate times, but it worked. Tess takes to the road to work through her pain, and her adventures reveal her back story slowly. The language is lovely and sarcastic and funny and painful, and the characters are the same. I’m hugely impressed by the author’s ability to make characters I loved from Seraphina into villains who I detested when experienced from Tess’s point of view. I’m a little disappointed that this wasn’t a standalone, but will at least try the second book ... whenever that may appear.