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Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

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katmccor's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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anispaperbacks's review against another edition

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dark reflective sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

WAAHHH I'm so glad I picked this up after adoring What Moves the Dead. This was so sweet and I just treasured Toadling and Halim the whole time they were such enjoyable and lovely characters. T. Kingfisher never fails to write in an unexplainably beautiful and strange manner. She's really such an inspiration for me. Her retellings are written in a way where you don't always realise or remember that it is a retelling, but the fact still sits there, coming back to you at parts. I think that's a sign of a good retelling, in my opinion anyway. That it can be lost in its own otherness from the original and not just stand there using the original as a crutch or marketing point. Thornhedge was just delightful. It really felt like such a comfort and sweet book, despite the horror of a child animating the dead and torturing animals.

I was so engaged this whole time, never waiting for the last page to come, never finding my self thinking "ughh I could read one more chapter I suppose. Then i can stop". When I wasn't reading this, I was looking forward to coming back to it. I really just enjoyed every second of it, which was so refreshing after the few reading months I've had.

Toadling's story spoke to me at times, about isolation, loneliness, not fitting in, and critiquing yourself by the standards of others. Ha. The story about changelings is relatable to the autistic person who would have guessed. And also - I'm just always down for a slightly gruesome story, especially if it features freak mer type people.

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karenschlesser's review

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adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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riledupryepie's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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silverhill's review against another edition

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fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

I am so glad T. Kingfisher shares her wonderful imagination with us. This is a lovely story about belonging.

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librarymouse's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I really loved this retelling of the sleeping beauty story. Toadling is such an interesting character! Braiding Toadling's childhood into the interplay between the changeling and the foundling and her telling both stories to the gentle knight is a very neat way of revealing the story to the reader layer by layer. I love a character with atypical perceptions of what it means to be beautiful, and Toadling's love for the Green Teeth, especially the eldest for her size, glory, and skill, is one of my favorite ways in which a character has equated love with beauty.

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