I finished
The Snow Child
and, predictably, sobbed. That's one I'll go back to again and again, I think.
I was fascinated by the way she
didn't punctuate dialogue in the scenes with Faina, as if they were communicating psychically or something, because it gave it more of that fairy tale quality. But even after the baby's born, and you have to assume she was real, she also wasn't quite fully human either
.
Oh, Amy, I'm so glad you liked it.
Can I also recommend another book? Not a sobbing one, but a pirate romance of sorts?
Cinnamon and Gunpowder
by Eli Brown.
Not a sobbing one, but a pirate romance of sorts? Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown.
This sounds EXACTLY like what I need right now.
Lately I’ve been chugging through the delightful Sebastian St Cyr Regency mysteries and enjoying the heck out of them.
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I'll look it up! And also those Regency mysteries, because I loved the Kate Ross ones.
Amy. Have you read Tasha Alexander's Lady Emily mystery series? The first is called And Only to Deceive. It took a bit for me to really get into, but they are richly researched, set in a variety of places (and quite vividly so), and feature an intelligent female protagonist. They're set in the late 19th century.
More books to make note of!
Oh! I HAVE that book, Pix! I forgot I had gotten it on my Kindle a while back.
Cinnamon and Gunpowder
looks great! It's got sort of a Big Fish vibe.
Why are you people giving such good recs when I'm doing the TBR Triple Dog Dare and can't read anything new until April Fools? It's a conspiracy!
Consuela, thanks for the link! I love Vernon's gardening essays and Digger comic. It's great to read another kind of work by her.