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How is this book so good? How is Cooney so good?


How!

Such an excellent novel / series.

Linden branches covered in snow.

“My black-eyed boy,” said Gideon’s earliest and worst nightmare, “welcome home.”

"a woman clothed in large, flat, heart-shaped leaves, fossilized in clay so that they clinked like ceramic when she walked. Instead of hair, what grew from her head was an abundance of fragrant yellow flowers, crawling with honeybees; her pupilless eyes were washes of gold. But her arms were long and thin: her hands longer, thinner. Switch-like, stick-like fingers of a pale basswood brown, hideously speckled white. "

"That is what your mortal art does to us gentry. It teaches us how to dream of death. Us! The deathless dream of the Valwode! We have no defense against it.”

Rich writing, such a master of prose.

"But no one saw her. No one questioned her. Except the boy.

She did not want the boy to forget her. She wanted him to find her. She wanted...

She would have to think about what she wanted from that boy. He stirred her. He was momentous. He was...

He was not a part of her plan. But he might be what she needed."

"If Miss Desdemona Mannering’s beauty was that of a tigress, Ana’s was more elemental, more soul-stirring. Like a midsummer bonfire among friends who were soon to be parted. Like a late-autumn windstorm: one that strips the last blazing leaves from the copper beech trees, baring their branches to winter’s beauty."

The prose! Loving this book already. Its a world that makes you want to live in it.