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381 pp.
| Dial |
April, 2013 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8037-3969-7$17.99
(2)
YA
First in a projected trilogy, this plot-driven time-travel fantasy compensates for its unremarkable prose with sheer copiousness--in wintry descriptions of its setting and allusions to multiple mythologies. Fisher's sentences are short, propulsive, and transparent, emphasizing the visual. The story is amply punctuated with narrow-escape scenes and hints at thinking about how acts of the present impinge on the future.
Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2013