A Turn of Light is a sprawling 840 page fantasy novel by Julie E. Czerneda. It is set in the small village of
Marrowdell. Marrowdell is an isolated
place with lots of peculiarities located on (or possibly next to) a rift
between its world and another, stranger world. Our overly naive (unconsciously powerful) heroine is cursed to
never leave the village on pain of death but longs only to depart. She makes herself a husband out of her
childhood playmate a spirit creature (who is really a dragon from the other
realm punished to oversee her) on the same day that a good actual husband
candidate arrives from outside to take up residence in the village and things
precede from there. I will admit that I
only got halfway through (400 pages though) before I had to give up because I
honestly could not stomach the heroine.
She was too naïve, too self-involved, too realistically 19 for my blood.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014
A Turn of Light
A Turn of Light is a sprawling 840 page fantasy novel by Julie E. Czerneda. It is set in the small village of
Marrowdell. Marrowdell is an isolated
place with lots of peculiarities located on (or possibly next to) a rift
between its world and another, stranger world. Our overly naive (unconsciously powerful) heroine is cursed to
never leave the village on pain of death but longs only to depart. She makes herself a husband out of her
childhood playmate a spirit creature (who is really a dragon from the other
realm punished to oversee her) on the same day that a good actual husband
candidate arrives from outside to take up residence in the village and things
precede from there. I will admit that I
only got halfway through (400 pages though) before I had to give up because I
honestly could not stomach the heroine.
She was too naïve, too self-involved, too realistically 19 for my blood.