perhaps for my children your surface will smile

For lack of any hilariously entertaining real-life incidents, I thought I might as well post a review that I've been sitting on for a while. It's Brenna Yovanoff's The Replacement, and this is a book that surprised me.

I love being surprised like this. This is maybe a little more enthusiastic than it would have been, had I not read The Replacement on the heels of a number of books that disappointed and enraged me with their smug mediocrity, abuse of cliches, and failure to examine their own premises.

If you’re a Celtic mythology purist, you will probably not like The Replacement. Happily I am not. As long as you don’t misspell anything, I don’t care who you conflate or combine or just plain make up.

( If you try this with Greek mythology, I will gut you. Uh, metaphorically. Actually gutting things is disgusting and Not Done around here, thanks. Except that one time in shark anatomy lab. )

perhaps for my children your surface will smile

For lack of any hilariously entertaining real-life incidents, I thought I might as well post a review that I've been sitting on for a while. It's Brenna Yovanoff's The Replacement, and this is a book that surprised me.

I love being surprised like this. This is maybe a little more enthusiastic than it would have been, had I not read The Replacement on the heels of a number of books that disappointed and enraged me with their smug mediocrity, abuse of cliches, and failure to examine their own premises.

If you’re a Celtic mythology purist, you will probably not like The Replacement. Happily I am not. As long as you don’t misspell anything, I don’t care who you conflate or combine or just plain make up.

( If you try this with Greek mythology, I will gut you. Uh, metaphorically. Actually gutting things is disgusting and Not Done around here, thanks. Except that one time in shark anatomy lab. )