Book 4 All the Queen's Horses (not yet out) of The Shattered Looking Glass series is back from the book critic.
She says:
I’m writing this review differently than the others, and I will provide something more polished, if you’d like. However, this novel is different than your others, so I think it’s befitting of a different approach. Through all the darkness, the secrets, the pain and the addiction, “Queen’s Horses” offers something new: fragile hope. The final message is one of triumph. There is something incredibly endearing about the characters you’ve created here, something genuine and real. From the father, who mixes his stories, having Zeus swallowed by a whale in the Bible, and the alcoholic, has-been B movie actress mother comes a family that is shattered and broken by secrets and suppressed memories. But through the narrative, brought alive by the different characters’ own narrations, we see a complex family system, developed in the past and seemingly doomed to continue into the future. In the present, it is up to Queenie and Katie to break the bonds of their dysfunctional inheritance and start something new. Beyond everything else that this novel is, it is a story of perseverance and hope. These are not words I would typically use to describe a Hatter novel, and the very nature of this story proclaims the multi-facetedness of the author.
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