![]() Fortunately, the Road has answers (“ walk on”), and by the end Tess has faced her past and can look forward to another volume of adventure, discovery, and changing her world. ![]() Angry, bitter Tess has reason for her feelings but is not always easy to walk with, and the slow reveal of her past makes for a compelling read on the ways in which girls-in the quasi-Renaissance Goredd and also in the real world-are taught to take blame on themselves even when others are culpable. She travels across Goredd and Ninys in search of a Quigutl prophecy and her own purpose in a sometimes-episodic tale narrated in descriptive, sharply observant third-person prose. After drunkenly punching her new brother-in-law at Jeanne’s wedding, Tess dresses as a boy and takes off. ![]() Now 17, haunted by past mistakes, immersed in self-denial and the need to follow “proper” behavior, white Tess-who once befriended lizardlike Quigutl and secretly attended lectures-is miserable. There are three Dombegh sisters: naughty Tess, perfect twin Jeanne, and famous, talented older sister Seraphina (of Seraphina, 2012, and Shadow Scale, 2015). ![]() ![]() Hartman returns to Goredd with the tale of another young woman who breaks the rules in search of herself. ![]()
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