Alix E. Harrow
Autore di The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Alix E. Harrow
Serie
Opere di Alix E. Harrow
Mr. Death 3 copie
Opere correlate
The Long List Anthology Volume 7: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List (2022) — Collaboratore — 29 copie
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 3 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Heintzman, Alix
- Data di nascita
- 1989-11-09
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Berea, Kentucky, USA
- Agente
- Kate McKean
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Which house? (1)
Witchy Fiction (1)
Morphy Pick! (1)
READ IN 2022 (1)
Feminism (1)
Netgalley Reads (1)
Female Author (1)
Staff Picks (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 19
- Opere correlate
- 18
- Utenti
- 8,211
- Popolarità
- #2,947
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 415
- ISBN
- 86
- Lingue
- 10
- Preferito da
- 6
Harrow is deft and sure-footed as she weaves a tale as compelling as any fairy-tale enchantment, uncovering layer after layer of the sisters’ characters as they move deeper and deeper into the battle to take charge of their own lives and their own destinies. They are helped, eventually, by other women (and A Few Good Men) who live in the New Salem of this universe – a city of rigidly gridded streets and determinedly upright citizens, who are nevertheless haunted by the heritage of their Old Salem, a city burned to ashes to rid itself of the stain of witchcraft. And yet there is something nasty and evil creeping around the edges of all this self-righteous purity, and the nascent coven, which names itself the Sisters of Avalon, quickly attract both its attention and its enmity.
Drawing both on the classic precepts of witchcraft and on the richly symbolic fabric of fairy tales and children’s rhymes, Harrow creates a tapestry both complex and compelling, with characters the reader can’t help rooting for. There are all sorts of surprises lurking in the corners, some great fun (who are those two sisters, Victoria and Tennessee, who show up from time to time?), some deeply hidden under two or three layers of deception, and some that present themselves as obvious to anyone familiar with what is popularly accepted as the lore of The Craft.
This is an ambitious and polished work, and not one that can be whizzed through over a long weekend. The reader will find total immersion here, and an unwillingness to put the book down to return to the mundane world. One might even say it’s almost as if the book were … well, enchanted might not be too strong a term.… (altro)