by Greer Ilene Gilman
Newcomer Gilman's tale of magic and questing traverses the realm of fantasy into utter nonsense. When Ariane and her friend and teacher Sylvie perform a mysterious ritual in the woods in the dead of night, Sylvie suddenly vanishes "into the dark beyond." Ariane sets off with an inscrutable child called Craobh and a tinker to find her companion and restore the universe to rights. Unnecessarily convoluted, this...
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