Janice Y. (jai) reviewed on 10/27/2007 + 310 more book reviews

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I sped over to the library to pick up a copy of this book after reading a review of it online. This reads as a mix of Neil Gaiman's Stardust, 1001 Nights, and some well-known, often-told fairy tale. Keturah is a young village girl who follows a stag into the forest and gets lost for a few days. Eventually she sees Death come for her, but being the storyteller of the village, she tells Lord Death a story and then refuses to tell the ending unless she gets one more day of life and then, she promises, she will finish the story. What follows is a charming story about her village and the people in it, and of Keturah, and her relationships with her friends and family and with Lord Death. Told from the first person point of view this story reminds me of the first time I ever experienced a fairytale. While this is a young adult novel, it felt like it was written with no particular age in mind. A gem.

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