A review by travelgirlut
The Spellcoats by Diana Wynne Jones

3.0

I love the premise in this book, that stories and spells can be woven into fabric, and the first half of the book had me fairly deeply drawn in. But when we get to the second half, it really lost me. The main character makes all sorts of intuitive leaps of understanding that I don't feel were ever adequately explained. Then throw in all the Undying that keep popping up and they each have a gillion different names and I got lost. Really lost. I kept reading hoping that something would sum everything up and make sense, but it didn't. I got the general gist of things, but I would really have liked to have been able to stay deeper in the story through the whole thing. I'm very much hoping that the final book brings everything together and isn't just another individual story as the first three have been.