Wildwood Dancing

This is a very beautifully written fairytale. It was my first Marillier, and it did not disappoint. An intriguing story of the fae, clearly feminist in nature, tightly plotted. There were a few lesser parts– it's clearly young adult, for one, lacking in character depth and sometimes a bit too unsubtle when it came to villains, character motivations, and so on. But then it is a fairytale, isn't it?

The prose was good but nothing amazing. I read her with Patricia McKillip in mind, since McKillip's most common cover collaborator also made the cover for this book, and because they obviously write very similar type of stories, but I found Marillier to be no match for McKillip's beautiful, flowery language.

A fun read.