Basic Reason for Beginning: I really, really like Dancy and the ambiguity that all of her actions in Threshold had. I wanted more of her, so I pounced as soon as I could in getting this.
Basic Reason for Finishing: Look at the shiny! I likee! I likee lots!
Texture: A bit milky-murky, but such a stark contrast with Threshold. It's much softer and absolutely not sing-songy.

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Book Rereadability: Oh, yes. Kiernan is one of those writers whose works you'll always find something new in because what she's writing tends to be so subtle.
Author Rereadability: Oh, yes. (I'm thinking I might prefer Kiernan's short stories over her novels, but I've only read one of her novels and it wouldn't be a fair comparison.)
Recommendation: This is... It's dark fantasy. If you want something that's shiny and makes you think, I'd recommend this. If you want fluff, I don't. This will make you think. If only to figure out which side is good and which is bad. ( )

I had to give up on this one part way through. First off... the sentence structure was awful and there were run-ons and incomplete sentences galore. Second of all... too much description and not enough action in some parts. And lastly, it seemed too... um gorey and horrorish. So... I gave up. ( )

I suppose albino monster killing avatars of a higher power may just have been done before. This waif girl version of such is even more a pathetic specimen than the other one, in general, perhaps a 78 pound weakling, even, in that she looks like she would struggle to bench press a baby toad.

No soul-sucking sword, either, just a not overly well sharpened kitchen knife to face the monsters, demons, and crazed magic-wielders, after a bit of prompting from a showy fiery sword wielding angelic not overly helpful type.

Dancy Flammarion : 1 Les Fleurs Empoisonnées - Caitlín R. Kiernan
Dancy Flammarion : 2 The Well of Stars and Shadow - Caitlín R. Kiernan
Dancy Flammarion : 3 Waycross - Caitlín R. Kiernan
Dancy Flammarion : 4 Alabaster - Caitlín R. Kiernan
Dancy Flammarion : 5 Bainbridge - Caitlín R. Kiernan

A bailiff, a dead bear, and a League of monstrous women.

3.5 out of 5

Riddle survival.

3.5 out of 5

"Sure, we been prayin' for someone, but not a crazy albino kid with a butcher knife."

3.5 out of 5

"I don't have a tail," Dancy says, wishing the albino girl in the mirror, the girl who isn't her reflection after all, would shut up and go away. "You might as well, as far as the Seraphim are concerned. To them, you're nothing but a trained monkey, an ugly little freak of evolution they can swindle into wiping their Heavenly arses for them."

3.5 out of 5

Angel slicing.

3 out of 5

http://superprose.blogspot.com/2008/03/alabaster-caitlin-r-kiernan.html ( )

"I don't have a tail," Dancy says, wishing the albino girl in the mirror, the girl who isn't her reflection after all, would shut up and go away. "You might as well, as far as the Seraphim are concerned. To them, you're nothing but a trained monkey, an ugly little freak of evolution they can swindle into wiping their Heavenly arses for them."

http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2008/03... ( )

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