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Troll: A Love Story

Johanna Sinisalo,

Herbert Lomas (Translator)

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Jun 18, 2007 Sean rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, non-us, translation, glbtq2-interest

Johanna Sinisalo is apparently well-known in Finland. It's too bad the only pieces of hers that we have in English are this book and a short story in the Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy (which I have yet to read). But if Troll is representative of her writing, I have high, high hopes for more of her work.

Troll plays with several kinds of eroticism and desire as we see the central story unfold: Angel, a gay photographer, rescues a young, injured troll from a band of teenage tormenters and takes i ...more

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Sep 15, 2009 Christy Stewart rated it liked it

Shelves: romance, bl, fantasy, urban-fantasy, speculative-fiction, contemporary, paranormal, reviewed

Too slow and boring at parts but it's a great style and interesting; it's a good book if you just want to try something different. ...more

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Jan 21, 2020 Matthew rated it it was amazing

Second reading. Liked it more this time, I think. Great writing, great characters, really thoughtful narrative about the interplay between nature and mankind and the erotic.

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