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boosette.dreamwidth.org ([identity profile] boosette.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2007-12-22 11:46 am

Frozen Statue by Elspeth Elf (R)

Fandom: TAMORA PIERCE (TORTALL)
Pairing: Lady Yolane of Dunlath/Tristan Staghorn
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] elsepethelf
Author Website: n/a
Why this must be read: Disclaimer: I dared her to write it.

Set about a year after the events of Wolf Speaker, this story is all kinds of squicky and it makes me feel all kinds of wrong for loving it. But I do. The framing provides distance from the events of the story in a way that makes it feel half like a Big Fish Story: it can't be true, can it? But the events are shown as well, and it is true. Yolane in her descent into madeness is a thing of beauty.

Also, Elspeth pulls of dialect. Which is rare and awesome.

No snippet because it really has to be taken as a whole.

http://p101.ezboard.com/fthedancingdovefrm40.showMessage?topicID=86.topic

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