The Spear Cuts Through Water

This is a very complex novel, both in form and story telling style.  It is a story within a story within a story.  It changes between first, second, and third person at the drop of a hat.  The prose is lush and stylistic.  All that combined would usually turn me off a book.  I don’t mind making an effort to read a complex book, but sometimes it’s too much and I can’t remain in the headspace to get everything out of it.  With this book, I found it a compelling challenge that I wanted to conquer.  I was rewarded with a superb tale that kept me driven to finish.  This book won the 2023 Robert Holdstock Award which is the British Fantasy Society award for Fantasy (there is a separate BFS award for Horror). 

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