When I began this book, I was not sold on the first few chapters. The style was a little too – overly smarmy asides, self-satisfied attempts at humor – I was annoyed by the cliched characters and benign but still smug silliness. And then my hometown, Los Angeles, caught fire, and my family evacuated early one morning, and my entire feeling toward it changed. I read this book over three days while waiting for my phone to tell me which of my friends had lost […]
A lovely, much-needed escape
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
