Patricia McKillip’s Winter Rose
I’ve really been enjoying reading McKillip’s books, but this one did not do it for me. It’s both really slow and also suffused with a sense of dread, so just really unpleasant to read. It’s one of those fairy tales that’s more on the horrific side of fairy, except nothing really happens in this book! A dude comes to town and stories of curses rise up, and the woods are weird, and the protagonist is lovelorn and her sister is lovelorn, and winter is full of bad things, and it all just goes in circles. Ugh. B-.
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