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Song of the Sparrow
by Lisa Ann Sandell
394 pages (hardcover)
Genre: Fiction/Poetry/YA/Fantasy
Look, the first officially unfinished novel of 2008! I got maybe a quarter of the way in, and then it was due at the library. It never became remotely compelling, so I wasn't sad to give it up. Apparently the plot is about Elaine of Ascolat of "The Lady of Shalott" immortal fame; but she's a spunky redhead teenager and the only girl in Arthur and Lancelot's camp. And Guinevere comes in later, but I never got to that point. The story is spectacularly uninspired, but the format--a novel in verse--attracted my curiosity. Alas, I'm quite disappointed and will not be seeking out Sandell's work. (The poetry wasn't even that great--mostly first-person free verse whining.)
by Lisa Ann Sandell
394 pages (hardcover)
Genre: Fiction/Poetry/YA/Fantasy
Look, the first officially unfinished novel of 2008! I got maybe a quarter of the way in, and then it was due at the library. It never became remotely compelling, so I wasn't sad to give it up. Apparently the plot is about Elaine of Ascolat of "The Lady of Shalott" immortal fame; but she's a spunky redhead teenager and the only girl in Arthur and Lancelot's camp. And Guinevere comes in later, but I never got to that point. The story is spectacularly uninspired, but the format--a novel in verse--attracted my curiosity. Alas, I'm quite disappointed and will not be seeking out Sandell's work. (The poetry wasn't even that great--mostly first-person free verse whining.)
