![]() ![]() Likewise, fantasy is the most strange and fantastical when it is rooted in truth and has its foundation in reality. A lie is strongest when it latches onto a strand of truth. The most cutting jests bear the edge of truth. Can’t we all? And yet there is a love that never fails. ![]() ![]() Of weakness becoming strength when surrendered. ![]() To my mind, this is a part of the beautiful truth of Shadow Hand, the concept of loving the unlovely. Very flawed heroes, aren’t they? And yet somehow, made more beautiful because of it. I could sympathize with many of the characters and was eager to follow the story since it did concern so many familiar faces, but I did not instantly fall in love with the main characters.įoxbrush: weak, afraid, bumbling and awkward in his best efforts.ĭaylily: selfish, proud, cold, running so far from what she fears that she becomes something worse. But wait, I thought you said Shadow Hand was no exception? Indeed. The characters did not instantly grab me as they have in previous Goldstone Woods books. Her books have a way of gripping you by the hand and plunging your into a faerie world so fierce and real and strange and true all at once, that you are carried away, like one dragged by the Sylphs, to a place beyond your time. It’s no secret by now that I love Anne Elisabeth Stengl’s Tales of Goldstone Woods series. ![]()
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