genre: fantasy retelling
If you've seen the Disney movie Brave, you already know the backstory to this tale of Scotland and the wild Merida of DunBroch with her younger triplet brothers, booming father and straight-laced mother. This story, though, is about seeing what needs to be changed and about deals with the Gods and a chance to make things right. It's about a shape shifting destroyer and the relationships between clans, their leaders and their lands. It's also about family, the ties that bind us and - yes again - about being brave enough to do what needs to be done.
I was all in for the last 1/3 of this book but it honestly took me until I was 1/3 IN to be engaged in it. It really surprised me, honestly, and I can't say I was completely convinced by the plot. It felt strangely sluggish and a bit convoluted, for some reason, with unfamiliar Gods and their ways, but once I felt finally like I was settled into the world Stiefvater created around the story I arleady know, it got much better. By the end so many lovely things tied together that I did like it way more in the end than I did in the beginning. Part of why I kept at it is that narrator of the audio (one of my FAVORITES, Fiona Hardingham) is truly phenomenal. I feel like it deserves at least 3.5 for how it was put together and I'm rounding up because I really liked how it ended.
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