“This is one of the darkest books I've ever read, but the prose is absolutely stunning. "Pine trees shiver like poisoned arrows," and "the moon is a clean sickle...and only now and then a shred of cloud passes through its claw." It's not a book for the faint hearted or easily spooked, yet Leila, the main character, learns how to survive, something she's been struggling to do since she was six when her mother was murdered. ”
lindakays wrote this review Thursday, September 20 2007.
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