Helpful Score: 4
The story of a family touched by fairies, a family (and for that matter, a whole rural community) whose fates seems intertwined with those of the faires and their alternate world.
Smokey Barnable married into this family. The most interesting aspect of this book, I think, is when Smokey's son becomes an adult and leaves for the big city. The imagary of Old Law Farm, smack dab in the middle of the metropolis, the foilding bedroom, the enigmatic Sophie, the various eccentric cahracters that pop up which you THINK might be fairies but can not be certain about all kept me turning the pages.
Smokey Barnable married into this family. The most interesting aspect of this book, I think, is when Smokey's son becomes an adult and leaves for the big city. The imagary of Old Law Farm, smack dab in the middle of the metropolis, the foilding bedroom, the enigmatic Sophie, the various eccentric cahracters that pop up which you THINK might be fairies but can not be certain about all kept me turning the pages.
Helpful Score: 2
This is another book that I bought because of the great reviews it was getting. I may be impatient, but this book is painfully slow. The hazy, indistinct magical stuff going on all over the place feels meaningless. Crowley's achievement, for me, was to make magic feel boring.
This book FEELS magical, because it IS magical. I read it slowly and savored every word. This is a masterpiece, I want to give a copy to every reader I know.
