Among Others by Jo Walton

Among Others

by Jo Walton

'It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.'

Fifteen-year-old Morwenna lives in Wales with her twin sister and a mother who spins dark magic for ill. One day, Mori and her mother fight a powerful, magical battle that kills her sister and leaves Mori crippled. Devastated, Mori flees to her long-lost father in England. Adrift, outcast at boarding school, Mori retreats into the worlds she knows best: her magic and her books. She works a spell to meet kindred souls and continues to devour every fantasy and science fiction novel she can lay her hands on. But danger lurks... She knows her mother is looking for her and that when she finds her, there will be no escape.

Reviewed by ross91 on

3 of 5 stars

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I wanted to love this book but it just wasn't for me. I think it's well written and fast to read, but at the same time the story was thin and a lot of pages were about nothing at all, like all the genealogy regarding the main protagonist's family... so boring, I skipped all of that without regret.
I love books that have many references, especially if those are about SFF and geek culture, but I couldn't get into the ones in this book... they were almost always about 70/80s stuff and, while I'm a huge SFF reader, I really don't like the ones published in those years (with very few exceptions).

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