![]() ![]() Mo is likeable enough that I kept reading despite having no idea what the story was, while questions kept distracting me. It's an interesting approach that isn't explored much a thin, barely-there veneer of fantasy over the tale of a girl enduring boarding school and her weird family. It has an original take on fairies and magic that bends them as close to real world as possible: coincidences are magic in action, etc. ![]() This is where Jo Walton gets to share her own list of genre favourites she read while growing up, making them Mo's (I've read "What Makes This Book So Great" and the correlation seems pretty spot on.) The idea here, I think (because I wasn't made to feel it), is that Mo has plenty of genre fiction to read, therefore all is well. None of this seems to weigh her down much. Mo is embarking upon a new life with her father whom she's just met for the first time, attending a boarding school unlike any she's been in before, fitting into a social scene that rejects her, in a foreign country, relegated to using her second language as she struggles with a crippling injury, the death of a close family member, unwanted adult male attention, and maintaining distance from her psychotic mother who keeps sending her threatening mail. ![]()
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