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Jul 18, 2014yvox rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Jo Walton is a story-teller. What is it about an author's style that makes a reader read and read and read? From one sentence to the next, I was not reading a book, I was living a story. How does she do that? (Do you think I liked MY REAL CHILDREN?) Patricia is at the end of her life. She suffers as her mother did from Alzheimer's/dementia/"I forgot who I am". But she does remember her life. Trouble is, she remembers two lives. Which life is true, which life happened? My only problem with this book is that I was so looking forward to Ms. Walton's neatly wrapping up these tales with satisfying answers. Spoiler alert! she doesn't. She leaves you with questions: Do our choices affect the world? Would you choose differently if you could see the detailed movie of the life a choice would make? Read MY REAL CHILDREN, you will like it. And if you haven't yet, then read TOOTH AND CLAW. And I'm checking my library for what else this gifted author has given the world.