Keturah and Lord Death

This is a lovely Hades and Persephone retelling, more in the vein of inspired by than a direct retelling. This reminded me a lot of the dynamic in The Winternight Trilogy, with a fairytale-like plot and interactions between Death and Keturah less frequent. The personalities of the two main character......more

I am having one of those lucky runs of book reading where I keep pulling very Maggie books off the shelves. Of course, this book had come highly recommended to me as a Maggie-book, but . . . well, it's just not the sort of summary that begs you to pull it off the shelf. It's the historical, aspect,......more

Medieval peasant Keturah, a beautiful 16 year old girl known for her story-telling abilities, sees a lovely hart in the forest and decides to follow it for a while (because medieval peasants had lots of time to wander after stray harts) and ends up hopelessly lost. After three days of wandering in t......more

This is one of those books that teetered between Wow! This is awesome!, and What the hell is this?. In the end, I think that size really does matter because I believe the length of the book was its saving grace. There were some things in it that probably would have really annoyed me if the book had......more

The English version can be found below. ----------- German Version: "Unaussprechlicher Kummer lag darin, und unvergleichliche Schönheit." (S. 180) Diese Beschreibung passt auch zur Geschichte selbst, die sowohl traurig als auch schön ist. Ich würde das Ganze in die Kategorie eines Kunstmärchens einordn......more