Le jardin des silences is my third favourite. L’été dans la vallée could have done more with its concept, because the ending was rather abrupt, but it was still fine. Anyway, I was also telling myself that I was ~reading too much into things~ and no way was it going to be lesbians, but it was lesbians! Or at least one lesbian and I think Solène is meant to be bi? Also, Lénaïc turns into a dragon. But then it was explained! And okay, so it's not ever explicitly said it's set in Brittany, so it could have been on an island off the southern coast of France, but the love interest is called Lénaïc so pfffffffft. I have to admit that I was kind of going *headtilt* at it being set in Brittany despite all the talk of the Tarasque, because that's not even remotely Breton folklore, it's Southern France folklore. Les Sœurs de la Tarasque is my second favourite. It does excellent work providing an answer for a question I didn't think to ask myself before I read it: What do roads dream of? I've read about all sorts of dreaming things, including cities, but never about dreaming roads. L’autre route is my favourite! Some of the images from it have stuck with me all this time, as has the line (translated) 'Last week they were tortoises and I didn't know how to dance' which was chilling in context. Miroir de porcelaine was the one where I almost put the book down, because I felt like all the narrative voices were too similar. It was fine, but I still dunno what the fuck what up with it. L’arbre et les corneilles is vaguely fairytale-esque. It's okay, but it didn't leave a lasting impression on me. Swan le bien nommé is a retelling a fairytale. According to the author's website, it contains the following: Swan le bien nommé, L’arbre et les corneilles, Miroir de porcelaine, L’autre route, Les Sœurs de la Tarasque, Le pollen de minuit, L’été dans la vallée, Le jardin des silences, Née du givre, Dragon caché, Un bal d’hiver, Trois renards. This book is an anthology of short stories. Anyway, I bought the book at a convention, because the author was there and seemed pretty cool - which she is! Le Jardin des silences, by Mélanie Fazi: So I read this back in 2015.

I am going to go through all of these, gdit.Ĭaptain Britain and the Mighty Defenders 1-2

Untamed by Anna Cowan