A review by stubbornbones
The Lost Girl by Anne Ursu

5.0

This book is amazingly compelling and realistic emotionally while being narratively whimsical. It features an actually accurate representation of how much of children's time is spent in classes and after school activities and how the plot of their lives continues even (sometimes especially) during these "mundane" activities. Rather than writing parents, teachers, and the real world out as she infuses fantasy, Ursu unflinchingly confronts the intensity of problems, both real and "imaginary," that her heroines face and creates characters that are unpredictable and flawed in fascinating ways. This book has the weight of a Grecian tragedy, and I mean that as the highest compliment.