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ple are simply broken here like isha she knows it and the reader knows it i don t know if you could say i liked this book as much as i was drawn in by the author s audacity in retelling the classic novel the way she did isha s unique voice was the book s main draw for me and took me past what sometimes seemed like glacially slow pacing this book is what it is and you have to take it that way warts and all i think if you like it you ll really like it i m not going quite that far but i don t think i regret reading it either view all my reviews posted by bonnie mcdaniel on 5 25 2026 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels book reviews books read in 2026 goodreads may 21 2026 review the river has roots the river has roots by amal el mohtar my rating 5 of 5 stars this book surprised the heck out of me i went into it basically cold knowing nothing about it and closed the back cover on a beautiful story wonderfully told this is a fantasy that has the feel of a fairy tale centuries old a maybe true story that has passed into myth and legend and still has so much to say at its heart it s the tale of the love between sisters and how that love will transcend time and even death it also casts its magic in the structure of grammar and the language of music with lush supple prose just look at this paragraph most music is the result of some intimacy with an instrument one wraps one s mouth around a whistle and pours one s breath into it one all but lays one s cheek against a violin and skin to skin is holy drummer s kiss but a harp is played most like a lover you learn to lean its body against your breast find those places of deepest stiffest tension with your hands and finger them into quivering release you rock together forward and back your left hand keeps a base rhythm while your right weaves a melody through it and they flutter past each other as the music becomes more complex swells breaks shakes the body of your instrument in joy and grief alike in the wild wonderful grammar of being alive there are songs in this book in the mode of loreena mckennitt s take on the old english ballad the bonny swans murder ballads they re called and the protagonist uses one to reveal her murderer the man who drowned her for her land and sent her to faerie here known as arcadia this is esther hawthorn who loved a fae here named rin but who seems to be mab the queen of air and darkness esther s sister is ysabel the younger of the two who works with esther to guard the two willow trees the professors watching over the magical river liss the river that flows out of arcadia the river liss brings magical grammar to the human world and human witches conjugate it into many useful things esther is being courted by one samuel pollard and turns him down because she has fallen in love with rin in a jealous rage samuel drowns her in the river but because of her ties to rin a betrothal ring the river liss flows backwards and delivers esther s body into arcadia there she is reawakened into life but because she died on the other side she can only return to the human world in a different form she asks rin to make her into a harp and when rin brings her back to her parents house where pollard has shifted his attentions to ysabel esther sings a murder ballad of identification and pollard is exposed then she has to go back with rin into faerie but before they leave rin gives ysabel a hint on how she can find a hidden entrance and sing her way back in and years later ysabel does just that bringing herself and her young child into the fae lands and the sisters are reunited at last it s a simple enough tale but it has a lovely timelessness there is even an i narrator who is never identified and in the end who the narrator might be ysabel s child maybe doesn t matter i was completely caught up in the story of esther and ysabel this book is simply gorgeous and you owe it to yourself to read it view all my reviews posted by bonnie mcdaniel on 5 21 2026 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels book reviews books read in 2026 goodreads older posts home subscribe to posts atom my ratings system disclaimer i do not get paid for any of this i just post these reviews because i like doing it anyone and everyone following along welcome aboard one star bad to awful usually don t finish if i finish a book and label it one star it s almost always because the ending was so horrid it spoiled everything that came before two stars marginal i generally finish these but they have significant flaws in worldbuilding and or characterization my two main criteria with just enough good points barely for me to tough it out to the end sometimes i go into detail regarding these flaws it depends on how much the book irritated me three stars liked with caveats a lot of first novels fall in this category the flaws still exist but they are lesser and the promise is definitely there four stars really liked these are books that excite me with minor flaws five stars launching my socks into orbit amazing hits all my sweet spots the pacing is spot on the worldbuilding is logical and well thought out and the characters have depth i can usually rave about these books for several paragraphs and do quote of the day i know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey h l mencken a fragmented excerpt from the filer and the astronaut by louise carol the time has come the filer said to talk of many things of pups and picks and palimpsests of cadigan and king and why this movie cult is not and whether trolls believe but scroll a bit the pixels cried before you have your chat for some of us are full of links oh do not rush so fast no hurry said the astronaut they thanked him much for that a post of fifth the filer said is what we chiefly need filking and punnery besides are very good indeed now if you re ready pixels dear we can begin to read pixels said 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