![]() ![]() Years after Psyche’s ruinous disappearance, Orual wants to tell her side of the story and hold the gods accountable. She has seen the gods for the charlatans they are, and wants the whole world to know what she knows: that they are cruel, and delight in taking only the most precious of things from humanity, leaving nothing in return. ![]() Orual, the veiled queen of Glome, is old, alone, and approaching death. However, I love stories that reinterpret classic myths, and this particular interpretation was analyzed wonderfully by Karen Burnham and Karen Lord, so Till We Have Faces leapt onto my TBR pile.Īnd boy, am I glad that it did: I am not ashamed to call this book a masterpiece. Tumnus.Īdd to that The Problem of Susan, and it’s easy to see why I’ve been wary of his books. Subsequent attempts to read the book led to me stalling right around the time Lucy encountered Mr. ![]() I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe just a single time as a child, and the story was so un-engaging that I promptly forgot what happened. Despite his importance to the fantasy genre, I’ve never been a big reader of C.S. ![]()
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