Summer in Orcus in Into the Forest

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Summer in Orcus

T. Kingfisher

Start date: May 15, 2018

Finish date: July 14, 2018

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Dec 08, 2019 Mir rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: adventure, parallel-dimensions, fantasy

Were-house! Bwahah!
But don't let the humor lull you -- this isn't a fluffy book. Like Glorious, it has teeth.
Also rotting slime and bugs that grow inside people and other nasty stuff.
Read it anyway!

I don't know how other writers do it, but I'm constantly coming up with weird little tidbits that don't fit in what I'm currently working on. Images, vignettes, chunks of mini-story... Sometimes all I have is a single phrase...
These ideas pile up.

Thank you! It's relief to know other people do this. ...more

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Jun 05, 2018 Melanti rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: group-reads, e-book, fairy-tales-folklore-and-mythology, middle-grade, 2018

I was a little disappointed in this one. I was expecting an adult-oriented book, which is what this one seemed to be marketed as and was more in line with how I understood Ms. Kingfisher uses her pen names. And I can kind of see where the author is coming from, in terms of subjects that aren't appealing to the typical middle grader. However, in terms of depth and writing style and such, it's still very much a middle grade novel despite the scattering of adult viewpoints.

And while she does ignore ...more

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Aug 14, 2024 Ivana added it

Ne se膰am se kad mi je poslednji put neka knjiga (za decu ili ne) ovako fino legla.

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Jun 20, 2018 Margaret rated it liked it

Shelves: fairytale-myth-inspired, middle-grade

Summer is 11 and dreaming of escaping her mother's anxiety when a house with chicken legs parks itself in front of hers. After impressing Baba Yaga, Baba sends her to Orcus, a fantasy land with talking animals and dying trees, to find her heart's desire.

Summer is a lovable protagonist, and I loved her companion the weasel. While the plot did meander quite often and I found Summer to be too perfect (she has 0 flaws), this middle grade novel would make a nice read for any middle grade fantasy lov ...more

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