I'm just not very good at keeping this thing up to date as I finish, but I'm still trying.
So. The first of two more books to add to my reading list.
Title: The River King
Author: Alice Hoffman
Thoughts: I went through a phase about six months ago where I mainlined all the Alice Hoffman books I could find at my local used bookstore (this was back before the library became such a precious fixture in my life). She has a style that is... interesting, to say the least. She writes beautifully, in a way I admire and wish I could replicated, but which also breaks so many rules I've come to believe are Writing Law. She's forever waxing poetic with prose just this shade of purple, and she has an irritating habit of jumping POV in the middle of chapters or sections or even paragraph to paragraph. Yet, somehow it works. Somehow the story ends up beautiful, magical, readable and almost cinematic.
I still think she's a writer I should only read in small doses, but I know I'll probably catch up on her entire bibliography eventually. Jumping POVs and overuse of adjectives notwithstanding.
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