![]() ![]() ![]() I savored the richness and texture of that experience. These early sections are where the novella is at its most engaging: Griffith’s prose is syntactically dense and peppered with proper nouns, which forced me to re-read many sentences multiple times before I could fully parse them. Peretur grows up in the woods under the care of her mother, but she is a precocious and adventurous child who pokes and prods at the boundaries of her world. Spear is a genderbent take on the story of Peretur (who you may know as Parzival or Percival) and the Holy Grail. Spear lacks the emotional heft of a full novel but harbors its own pleasures. It has been almost a decade since the publication of Nicola Griffith’s Hild (which I haven’t read-I know, I know!-despite having owned it for nearly that long), and while the sequel is still forthcoming, Spear serves as a self-contained fantasy interstitial for those awaiting Griffith’s next work of historical fiction, or as an introduction to her diverse oeuvre for newcomers such as myself. I received an ARC of Spear from Macmillan-Tor/Forge in exchange for an honest review. ![]()
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