Full Details
WoGF Review: Of Blood and Honey by Stina Leicht
For Lynn Williams (lynnsbooks) books are much more than a hobby or a pastime they’re really an obsession. If she’s not reading a book, she’s talking about books on her blog, Lynn’s Book Blog, or deciding which books to buy next. Lynn reads all sorts of books, sometimes straying into YA, but her first love is fantasy. Recently she started to cross into science fiction thanks to the suggestions of some very excellent bloggers.
Editor’s note: We’re playing catch up here on WWEnd after WorldCon last weekend. This review counts for August.
Just finished reading Of Blood and Honey by Stina Leicht. I read this book as part of my Worlds Without End Women of Genre Fiction reading challenge. I’m posting my review now because this is my August book and if I don’t get on with it – well, it will be my September book instead! But, to be honest I think I would have liked a little more time to reflect on this particular novel and I will confess that it took me awhile to complete and I did put it down for a time. That being said I’m glad I finished. This is very well written and certainly captures a certain sort of mood.
Of Blood and Honey is a book set in Ireland in the 1970s during the ‘Troubles’. The story focuses on Liam who comes from a less than conventional parentage with a very mysterious father. He seems to go from one traumatic experience to the next. At the same time the story has a parallel story of conflict between fallen angels and the fey.
The aspects of the story that I thought were really good were the scene settings. This was a grim time and it certainly comes across here. The Troubles were not frivolous, a lot of people lost their lives and many families were affected and the melancholy within the book is a suitable reflection of this. It’s not a subject to be treated lightly.
