Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker

On hiatus at 52%

Why? My loan ran out at the library and I haven't been able to re-borrow it since :/ I really want to finish it, I enjoyed what I read so far (although not as Nutcracker-y as I thought it would be).

Overall I'm disappointed; I was expecting a lot more Nutcracker. At times the writing style was gorgeous but also overwrought, confusing, and needlessly fussy.
I thought the beginning was great, and the allusion to -and later the out and out naming of- the Grimm brothers was clever. Later I was excited when Dirk came to the paper makers as I thought I had recalled in one telling of The Nutcracker Klara having a family member who was a publisher, bookmaker, or something along those lines, but then it didn't really seem to come to much. Although I did like Nastaran.