By Ursula Vernon
Published by Sofawolf Press
This book is an interesting one. It stars Digger, a wombat who after five days of frenzied digging, ends up in a temple to the god Ganesh, with the hole back being magically changed, seemingly being removed from existence. Digger must thus explore this strange new world in order to find her way home. Along the way, she meets an interesting cast of characters, including a shadow creature, a slug with the gift of foresight, and a Hyena who's name did not exist any more.
This book is beautiful. It focuses on contrasting shadow, which gives the world a dark and ominous feel. The Plot is again open ended, but it does this correctly by making its mysteries interesting as well as putting the main character in the same position as us: clueless and constantly learning, despite the many similarities between this world and our own. The Plot does tend to go in a cycles. By this I mean that Digger ends up back at the temple which broke the flow a bit for me. The characters are great. My personal favorite is the shadow creature. Over all, the book has it's flaws, but more then makes up for them.
TL;DR: 8/10
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