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Goldenhand by Garth Nix
Goldenhand
3/5. Another Old Kingdom novel. I continue to find these strange; the elaborateness of the worldbuilding around death and the nine gates a soul passes through on the way, and the going through it, and the coming back, to the accompaniment of ringing bells. So few fantasy novels that tinker with the possibility of death manage to retain any terror of it, but this series does.
This book also touches lightly on two women, both ostracized from their people, both eventually amputees. I can't tell yet if he's setting up something really interesting here or if he's going to drop these threads like he does sometimes. But it's a nice diversion on the way to finding out.
3/5. Another Old Kingdom novel. I continue to find these strange; the elaborateness of the worldbuilding around death and the nine gates a soul passes through on the way, and the going through it, and the coming back, to the accompaniment of ringing bells. So few fantasy novels that tinker with the possibility of death manage to retain any terror of it, but this series does.
This book also touches lightly on two women, both ostracized from their people, both eventually amputees. I can't tell yet if he's setting up something really interesting here or if he's going to drop these threads like he does sometimes. But it's a nice diversion on the way to finding out.