Review: The Bone Doll's Twin

The Bone Doll's Twin by Lynn Flewelling
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I don't know if the writing is just that brilliant or it's my strange perceptiveness, but this book kept me up and awake for a long time and made me check on my sleeping son many times. The intensity and range of emotions packed in this little book is overwhelming, but still pales in comparison with the intensity of emotions triggered by this book (which are very different, of course, and have nothing to do with imaginary worlds). I'd say every book must be that charged, and intense, and difficult, and disturbing, but then again when I think about it, maybe it's best they are rare - it would be very exhausting and could easily lead to depression.
That said, there were some minor slips there. The author is not as mindful of moon phases as usual. There were sunbirds and cowbirds together in one forest (but it's an imaginary world, right?). And I do miss Seregil (that's why it took me so long to pick one of Flewelling's "other" books).
Off to the next volume!

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