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The Thorn and the Blossom
By Theodora Goss & Scott MckowenPublisher Description
One enchanting romance. Two lovers keeping secrets. And a uniquely crafted book that binds their stories forever.
When Evelyn Morgan walked into the village bookstore, she didn’t know she would meet the love of her life. When Brendan Thorne handed her a medieval romance, he didn’t know it would change the course of his future. It was almost as if they were the cursed lovers in the old book itself . . .
The Thorn and the Blossom is a remarkable literary artifact: You can open the book in either direction to decide whether you’ll first read Brendan’s, or Evelyn’s account of the mysterious love affair. Choose a side, read it like a regular novel—and when you get to the end, you’ll find yourself at a whole new beginning.
When Evelyn Morgan walked into the village bookstore, she didn’t know she would meet the love of her life. When Brendan Thorne handed her a medieval romance, he didn’t know it would change the course of his future. It was almost as if they were the cursed lovers in the old book itself . . .
The Thorn and the Blossom is a remarkable literary artifact: You can open the book in either direction to decide whether you’ll first read Brendan’s, or Evelyn’s account of the mysterious love affair. Choose a side, read it like a regular novel—and when you get to the end, you’ll find yourself at a whole new beginning.
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“The author has been on my radar because I want to read „The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter“, so I recognized her name on this very interesting looking book I found in a used book store. The book doesn’t have a spine, and you can open it like an accordeon and read it from both sides.
It tells the same story from two different perspectives: Evelyn, a young American woman is studying abroad and visiting a small town in Cornwall, where she meets Brendan, a local young man. They explore the surrounding nature together and Brendan tells her about an old Cornish myth, a tragic love story. After a week, Evelyn sees something unsettling and flees, but their paths cross again many years later.
I recognize what this book was trying to do, but for me it didn’t work. While I was basically reading the same story twice (with many of the parts repeated that were less interesting) it still felt incomplete. It was trying to be poetic and vague, but then again some boring parts were described with such detail. Too much of what it was supposed to be about (I assume) was left to the imagination, but then there was no resolution either. Maybe I just didn’t get it.
The book is a beautiful object, and overall it was a good idea, but not executed well in my opinion.
⭐️⭐️/5
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About Theodora Goss
Theodora Goss won the World Fantasy Award in 2008 for her short story “Singing of Mount Abora.” Her publications include the 2006 short-story collection In the Forest of Forgetting; Interfictions, a 2008 short-story anthology coedited with Delia Sherman; and Voices from Fairyland, a 2008 poetry anthology featuring critical essays and a selection of her own poems. She has been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, Locus, and Mythopoeic awards and has appeared on the Tiptree Award Honor List. Her work has repeatedly been showcased in “Year’s Best” anthologies. She lives in Boston, where she teaches literature and writing at Boston University.
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