Review:Bad things have happened, the world is changed. The dead walk amongst the living and the only thing separating them is the fence. A fence to keep the dead out, a fence to keep the living in.

Life in the village is about maintaining the fences, and maintaining the population. Love is a luxury not known to many, and dreams are stomped out as dangerous. Despite this Mary loves, she dreams.

Mary's life is filled with loss and sorrow, and as her world is turned to hell she starts to won... Read more

Review:I didn't think I would like this book at all. Several times I put it down thinking I would just delete it, because it seemed dark and hopeless. The characters were in deep poverty and times were so hard; however, I soon discovered that I was becoming fascinated by this book. I've never read anything like "Thieving Forest" and I read everyday. I am interested in various stories, but this book covers a longer period of time than most. It is suspenseful in that you can't imagine how it will po... Read more

Review:Three books in on this series. It's just ok. I still like the world and some of the characters, the magic etc. I have the same reservations I had from the 1st book. I hoped things would improve, but I think they've gotten worse. There are a lot of little details that started to bug me about this series.

Frequent PoV changes, especially to characters that I don't think need/deserve their own PoV. Practically every named character gets PoV and it just muddies things up in my opinion.
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Review:I'm normally more of a fantasy reader but when I heard about this book I was intrigued: a novel about a guy dealing with a trauma buy building a fantasy play-by-mail game, written by the guy from the Mountain Goats. The novel is more about personal growth and using fantasy as a mechanism. beautiful and haunting and poetic. Read more

Review:I read Julie C. Gardner's debut novel, Letter for Scarlet, and was pleasantly surprised at how warm and engaging it is. The plot is interesting and keeps you guessing until the end of the book. It was interesting meeting characters years after a tragic event to see how it impacted their lives and decisions. The character development is excellent. Ms. Gardner creates interesting and believable multi-dimensional characters. l I could hardly put this book down, and stayed up way past my bedtim... Read more

Review:I was reading Ex Libris as my 9-year-old daughter Sarah was reading a Marguerite Henry book. I laughed out loud, and Sarah wanted to know why, so I read her a passage from Ms. Fadiman's essay on taking care of books. There are two camps of booklovers: the "words are everything" group, into which the entire Fadiman family, as voracious a bunch of readers as you could imagine, belongs. They write in margins, dog-ear pages, break spines. To them, a book is merely a container for the thoughts i... Read more

Review:I picked up this book because it was free. I am glad I found it. The story pulled me in. The religious lessons didn't feel preachy or forced. The romance between husband and wife blossomed in spite of their brokenness. I see myself re-reading this book many times. Read more

Review:I am fascinated by the birth of the nation of Israel. This novel is wonderful I love the characters. Their stories are tragic and captivating. How could people survive what they survived, but they did in this novel and in reality. Read more

Review:The first book was great, but the second one, this book, was amazing! The story line moved along, keeping me engaged. The second half of this story pulled the story all together amazingly well. I couldn't put it down! Read more

Review:While I do agree with the fellow reviewer who found this book hard to finish, I feel as though I should point out one thing. It is fiction written for fictions sake. I highly enjoyed The Red Tent but found The Gilded Chamber boring. With Sarah I just didn't enjoy the writing style. Fiction should be for story telling, if you want fact go for a biblical studies book. Personaly I just want a well told tale, but did not find it in this book. Seemed choppy and hard to follow. Read more