I picked up this book because the title sounded cool and because the author, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, lives in Oregon, thus fulfilling one of my goals to read more local authors. But I'm sorry to say that I was disappointed in it.
First of all, it was weird. It has a fantasy element to it, so that should be expected. But it was in that odd in between stage where the world is almost normal, but not quite.
My main complaint as I read is that the main character was very juvenile. In some reviews I read, I think this book is supposed to be for a YA audience, but it wasn't shelved that way at my library. Plus, there are so many YA books that crossover well for an adult audience. This was not one of them.
But what I liked the least was the ending. It could have and should have ended a couple of pages earlier. The main character's final choice just didn't make sense with all of her thoughts and actions leading up to it. And it was weird. And I thought it was stupid.
So...I really wanted to like this book, but really, really didn't. The author has gotten such great reviews for her books that I wanted to like this one enough to try another of hers, but I was so disappointed in the ending, that I don't think I'll ever pick up another book by her.
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