A review by modern_life_is_mediocre
Ness by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood

5.0

I’m sat on a train in London heading towards my job. It’s noisy, it smells, it’s miserable. I reach into my backpack and take out this little 80 page book with beautiful crosshatch illustrations. Suddenly all I hear are waves crashing against rocks, wind howling making the trees rustle and bend and birds singing. In an instant I’m somewhere else. Somewhere dark and magical. The book is poetic and lyrical with hints of legends and fables, and I’m reminded a little of ‘Sir Gawain & The Green Knight’ (as someone else on GoodReads also mentioned). Finally I look up from the last page and wonder where I am! It’s my stop! I’m there! I’ve been completely entranced in this wonderful tale, reading the whole thing in one commute.