Title: Sorrow’s Knot
Author: Erin Bow
Published: 2013
Length: 342 pages
My star rating: ★ ★ ★ ½
Sorrow’s Knot is quasi-high fantasy aimed at a slightly younger set, and written in a style that sounds more like an oral story than a novel. What makes it really unique, though, is that the world in which it takes place is based not on medieval Europe, but pre-Columbian North America. In combination with the very oral tone, this gave the novel a very unique, fresh feel. While some of the details were simplistic and perhaps the world-building was underdeveloped, the subject matter was deep and emotional.
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