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Tales within tales, tales out of space, tales that spring from stars that fall from sky to take human shape; the writer writes like the dreamer dreams dreams - some dreams yearning and romantic, others dark and tragic, each dream holding a little bit of the next dream in its heart: the story as Oriental Ouroboros: the Arabian Nights as template, as both starting point and point of resolution; themes and metaphors and symbols slowly surfacing, to disappear and then reappear again, transformed, re
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5.5 to 6.0 stars. HIGHEST POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATION and may make it on to me list of "All Time Favorites." This is an absolutely amazing novel that I believe could become a "classic" in years to come. A modern fairy tale told as a series of interwoven "stories within stories within stories" that all come together in one fashion or another (itself a brilliant achievement). This is a "one of a kind experience" and I can not wait to read the sequel.
Nominee: World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (2007)
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Nominee: World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (2007)
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This was mentioned to me as a Tiptree Award winner. It had a nifty title and I thought "Well if it won a Tiptree it can't completely suck." In spite of my complaining about people trying too hard to be clever, I am going to allude to Sturgeon and say this is part of the 10%. It's a nice tasty read.
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Stories are told within stories, moving ever inward (or outward), echoing each others themes and characters. A very imaginative take on what it means to be a fantasy archetype--a maiden, a monster, a captain, a witch. Each tells their own story, and the characters in the story tell *their* own story, and so on. Because there's no prolonged narrative tension, nor any one character in every story, the book lost my interest a few times. I'm glad I perservered, because for every lackluster tale ther
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Abandoned 100 pages in. Too convoluted, kind of boring.
Jul 03, 2008
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