White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
My rating: 3/5 cats
i read this. i’m not sure how to review it. like the other things i have read by her, she shows a great flair for foreboding and atmosphere but the end is a void. i’m not sure what this book is. it’s not a traditional story, it’s kind of fairy-tale-like, but even that… there are characters who are involved heavily, and then they are absent from the narrative, never to return. i guess in that way, it is like the real-life situation of never knowing when the last time you will see someone will be. but in a novel, i have certain expectations of structure and novel-sense which are not being satisfied here. there is much in this novel that is dreamlike and dream-logic, and that is very enjoyable, but if you are looking for a plot-driven book with closure and all the good traditional stuff, i would tell you you don’t want this one. but i liked it more than i seem to have here.
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