![]() ![]() Like I said, it's a complicated and confusing experience. ![]() There's moments in this where, with great restraint, she writes moments of intense beauty.īut then again that beauty has to stand against the viciously dense text, and sometimes it's hard to remember why you're reading this when you've spent fifty pages not being quite sure what's actually going on. I described it on Twitter as being "beautifully written, but so far it's like wandering through a fog holding hands with a guide who doesn't tell you where you're going."īut the thing about Gardner's writing though is that you take that risk, and you join her on the journey because you know she is good. There are levels upon levels here, and it's not an easy read. ![]() It is also the story of how people are guided and shaped by their memories, by the re-shaping of their memories, and by their stories. The Double Shadow is the story of Amaryllis Reuben and how her father has built a machine, for her, that also possess the power to change the world. It is, as you may gather, a rather complicated experience. It is a book that I would describe as avant-garde both structurally and textually. It is a book of two halves and I think, a book that doesn't really start with page 1 nor end with page 384. This book is a uniquely challenging enigma to review,possessing of both heart-breaking beauty and ferociously complex and dense text. ![]()
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