It's been a slow reading month so far. (At least for reading books, rather than websites, articles for class, chapters from textbooks...)

I haven't posted in two weeks yet I'm only two books behind: Lisa Goldstein's Walking the Labyrinth and Tom Holt's In Your Dreams.

Walking the Labyrinth tells the story of a woman who'd been working a dead-end job when a PI enters her life trying to find information about her family. She learns along with him as the story goes along. As is typical for Goldstein magical elements intrude upon ordinary reality.

Tom Holt's In Your Dreams appears to be a sequel to his book The Portable Door but I haven't read The Portable Door and still enjoyed In Your Dreams. This one is less a retelling of a fairy tale and more of using mythological conceits to tell a corporate drama. There's fairies and goblins and dragons and a Hero (yes, with a capital "H") and hell and a love story.
posted by Kristin Buxton at 3:53 PM