Stealing the Elf-King's Roses

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

I just read this book for the first time after owning it for a couple of years, and as I'm in the habit of writing up my thoughts about books I read, I've posted some musings on my tumblr account. Figured I'd share and see if anyone else has something interesting to say about this book -- I don't hear much about it, but I really enjoyed it!

Comments

[comrade-cat.livejournal.com]

I read it a couple years ago & don't remember enough to make any useful comment, unfortunately, except to say that I started off being disappointed in it but was in love with the ending. I wish Duane had more stuff published!

I love your icon, btw. :)

[eavanmoore.livejournal.com]

I started to read it maybe seven years ago and was so bored that I skipped to the ending, which seemed thoughtful enough but didn't inspire me to go back and wade through the rest. This review is so positive, though, that I'll have to return to it when I can. The Book of Night with Moon definitely improved on rereading, so this one might too.

[rootedinsong.livejournal.com]

It inspired one of my (rare) pieces of Actual Writing. :)

[funwithrage.livejournal.com]

I liked a lot of the peripheral stuff and the ending, and would have liked the main plot more if it hadn't involved the stock market, which sort of shut my brain down like a tranquilizer dart to the neck.

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I will agree that it didn't start out by wowing me, but then by the end I was quite caught up in it. I wonder if I'd have liked it as much if I hadn't read Young Wizards, though. I feel like I needed to put it in the context of the rest of DD's universes in order to make it make some sense.

[caiteydid.livejournal.com]

I loved it! I kept going, "Oh, I recognize /you/," and all that (who couldn't recognize Justice?!) I think I've enjoyed most things I've read of her's, really.

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

I think that that moment of "recognition" was one of the things I liked most about it. I kept seeing all of her universes inside of one another...which was lovely, considering that it was also part of the point the book was trying to make!