I loved the whimsical, fairy-tale, fable-ish prose. It has that Narnia thing going on, where really dark and difficult themes and ideas are packaged and made palatable to kids through the language (well, some kids- there are scenes in the book that I wouldn't have been comfortable hearing until I...
This is the story of two sisters, very different from each other, searching for their parents who have suddenly gone missing. It's a fairy tale retelling of sorts, the story of the swan queen (their mother) and the evil puppeteer who wants to make herself queen. It's beautifully written, intensel...
Oh, but the sight of him felt dark and sweet and familiar to Clare, a cup of hot chocolate inside that storm. She thought of the word elflocks. “Ach, you’ve got elflocks,” her mother would say when her hair tangled, when she had to tug the comb through hard. Clare remember...