At some 700 pages, The Schimmering is not a quick read. But I happily picked up this book during my reading times throughout the day, and quickly became engrossed in the tale of our three ‘heroes’.

What I love about this author’s writing is her originality. Her characters and her stories rarely fit neatly into any boxy genre and The Schimmering, while it is fantasy, is no exception. You can’t anticipate how things will work out, what will happen to the characters, to the plot itself. Which m...