Scott Graham
A charming tale of the intersection of the real world and the faerie world, told from the perspective of sisters, one who is able to straddle the two worlds and the second who, like the willows they tend to, is firmly rooted in the real world. I didn’t appreciate the gender politics in the story which otherwise detracted from the power of the musical folk tale. Male suitors bad, female suitors good. I might have written my thoughts off as possibly overwrought, except the bonus story, called John Hollowback And The Witch included from a subsequent short story collection, contained the same moral: male suitors bad, female suitors good. All of that is not to say that there is something inherently wrong with that lesson per se, but it was not my cup of tea.
A charming tale of the intersection of the real world and the faerie world, told from the perspective of sisters, one who is able to straddle the two worlds and the second who, like the willows they tend to, is firmly rooted in the real world. I didn’t appreciate the gender politics in the story which otherwise detracted from the power of the musical folk tale. Male suitors bad, female suitors good. I might have written my thoughts off as possibly overwrought, except the bonus story, called John Hollowback And The Witch included from a subsequent short story collection, contained the same moral: male suitors bad, female suitors good. All of that is not to say that there is something inherently wrong with that lesson per se, but it was not my cup of tea.