Title: Interesting ideas, poor storytelling
Product review: I read this book a while back and it certainly stuck in my memory, but not very comfortably. I recall the characters as unrealistic and the ending as nearly incomprehensible. I have read several of Garner's other books (not counting his folk tale anthology, which is excellent), and have found them full of big themes and striking images but poorly constructed. They always seem to promise more than they deliver.Susan Cooper does the same thing better.
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