2024/047: All the Hollow of the Sky — Kit Whitfield

2024/047: All the Hollow of the Sky — Kit Whitfield

Farriers wrestled with the unkenned all their lives; they ran alongside the People from childhood, sometimes befriending, sometimes negotiating, sometimes fighting, but whatever course they took, it could be guided by the iron rule that mortal folks must be protected from the People. [loc. 543]

This novel is (mostly) a prequel to In the Heart of Hidden Things, and it is considerably darker in tone. Though it features the three generations of fairy smiths -- Jedediah, Matthew and John -- much of the novel deals with events a generation or two before, beginning Jedediah's grandfather Clem being befriended by a fae who he names Ab.( Read more... )