Lyndall Clipstone casts another spell with this lush, atmospheric sequel. Kylie Ann Freeman, bookseller at Indigo Books Lyndall Clipstone is a brilliant new voice in YA and certainly one to keep watching for. Kay Frost, Brookline BooksmithĪn exquisitely crafted tale of love in all its brutality and how far we are willing to fight for it in defiance of death. With shades of Orpheus and Eurydice and a fresh twist on the classic love triangle, Forestfall is a worthy conclusion to the duology.
Marissa Meyer, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lunar Chronicles What a haunting depiction of death, power, and the lengths we will go to for true love. In an eerily vivid world of dark magic and darker monsters, this lush fairy tale of a book if so full of yearning, my heart physically ached - for Violeta, for Rowan, for the Lord Under himself. An inventive and unconventional duology closer certain to spark discussion. And for those of us who made it to the end, the final section is devastatingly good.Clipstone's gothic slow-burn has all the right romantic dark fantasy elements-shadowy magic and a tortuous love triangle.making for prose that reads like a hypnotic incantation and love scenes that are positively incendiary. Blixen's time in Africa shaped her as a writer, and we found this fascinatingly revealed on the page. Our discussion was nuanced in its recognition of Blixen's vantage point as a privileged Western woman, but also the transformation in her thinking (on humanity) from living alongside another culture so closely and respectfully for all those years.
While a beautiful record of a time and place, the colonial lens was sometimes hard to bear in a contemporary context. However, the writing is also copiously dense, so we found this to be an epic read.
Blixen writes the country, its colours, people, sensations, smells, sounds, animals, and seasons with electric detail. This memoir of Blixen's 18 years in Kenya, running a coffee plantation at the outbreak of the First World War, is a stunning evocation of place. Last month at Matilda Bookshop we discussed the iconic classic, Out of Africa, by Karen Blixen.
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