Ysabel

This sweet YA novel was decent fare, but not what I expected from this author. I thought his The Lions of Al-Rassan was brilliant, with amazing prose weaving history and fantasy together. This fantasy book weaves the present with the distant past, but it doesn't have the gorgeous prose of "Lions". I did find myself engaged in the story despite several issues. According to reviews I read afterwards, some of the characters appeared in an earlier novel by Kay and make references to that work. I didn't notice anything really missing, but I often found myself feeling as lost as the main character. This book won the 2008 World Fantasy Award and was nominated for a few others.

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