Review: More fantasy, less urban and brilliant!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 4, 2011
Quarter Square is going to be a difficult book to review. Not because I'm ambivalent or want to temper my response, but because of the beautiful way this book is crafted. Anything I comment on specifically will only spoil the tale for the reader. It is seriously one of those books, the first twist comes in the first chapter and I really don't want to give anything away. It's a slippery slope to stand on in terms of reviewing.I actually can't believe how short the book was in relation to how much ground it covered. Amazing pace and tension all the way through and it feels more like an old school fantasy than an urban fantasy book.Suffice to say, I wholeheartedly recommend this, in many ways it reminds me of the magical English children's books I grew up but with a gorgeous urban fantasy twist. Worlds piled upon worlds and history so thick you can see it. Joe, our hero, is as clueless as the reader and it makes for a page-turner of a book. A great male lead (right after I was bemoaning the lack of male protagonists in the urban fantasy genre as well!) from Mr Bridger and I'm looking forward to the next in the Wild Times series just to watch him find even more of himself and the world he's in.I will stop being so vague at this point and just let you go get a copy. It's worth it. And yes, I did get my review copy for free but I honestly wasn't influenced by that at all. No qualifications in this review.