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Title: Beautifully written but lacking emotional depth...
Review: A beautifully imagined tale, full of rich, lyrical prose. McKillip's shadow world is fascinating, a recurrence of her theme of parallel worlds joined by gateways that only those that can "see" can access. I loved Mag's character and thought Ducon had a lot of potential, but felt that they lacked a certain emotional depth. As usual, McKillip ends the tale with more ambiguities--no simple "happily ever after" ending for this author! Such is life, I suppose, but in your fiction, it is nice sometimes to have closure...and I had hoped that Mag and Ducon would end up falling in love, so ended a bit disappointed.
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