![]() ![]() ![]() But there is a certain quality to the prose that I can't describe other than to say that it gets under your skin and lingers - that below the straightforward surface there is a layer of complexity that I appreciate more today than I perhaps realized as a child. Yes, the court politics run on a fairly standard king system. But I didn't mind picking it back up again, especially in the context of research.Īnd (to get to the point), I was so glad that I did. ![]() I remembered reading it more than once, but it had never become one of my constants in the same way Ella Enchanted did, for example. Indeed, when I got the suggestion on Twitter, I didn't remember much one way or the other about the book. ![]() First published in the early 1990s, Juniper has the hallmarks of many children's fantasy novels published around that time - there is a distinct good matched against a distinct evil, a straightforward plot with few detours, a certain clarity of focus leading to a conclusion that many readers of more recent fantasy may see as predictable. ![]()
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