![]() It is the rare reader who could read this book and be unaffected―or unscathed.” Yet the richness of the world, the complexity of the main character, and the intensity of her tragedy evoke memories that linger for a long time. It should have been a relief to awaken from The Pattern Scars, after all its horrors. “Caitlin Sweet’s shimmering prose, already apparent in her debut novel A Telling of Stars, reaches new heights in The Pattern Scars, which is so replete with luminous images and an evocative atmosphere that even now, a week later, these sensations still haunt my memory as if they had been real, a country I visited and would return to again. The Flame in the Maze is a book of both horror and beauty, conveying each with equal, delicate precision.” ![]() “These books infuse the myth of Theseus with the haunted complexities of a labyrinth, made the more unsettling by Sweet’s sensuous prose. ![]()
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