Your Humble Blogger had read Goose Girl a few years ago and enjoyed it, and then forgotten who wrote it. That sort of thing happens a lot. Less so, since I started trying to blog everything I read, so that’s a plus. Anyway, I eventually found Princess Academy, discovered it was written by the same Shannon Hale that wrote Goose Girl, and decided to keep an eye out for her stuff.
Which is why I picked River Secrets off the library shelf. Unfortunately, it’s the third in what has become the Bayern trilogy, of which Goose Girl is the first. Fortunately, Ms. Hale has done a fine job of making the book stand on its own. Unfortunately, that seems to have involved enough recounting the plot of Enna Burning that I don’t particularly want to go back and read the middle one. Fortunately, Ms. Hale has written a book for grups, published this summer! Unfortunately, it’s effectively chick-lit. Fortunately, it’s chick-lit with lots of references to 19th Century Novels. Unfortunately, they are Jane Austen novels. Fortunately, it’s set in the present day, and is not in any way a sequel. Unfortunately, it appears to have people pretending they are in Jane Austen novels, at some sort of Jane Austen Theme Park.
I can’t decide if it is Fortunate or Unfortunate that my local library doesn’t have a copy yet.
Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,
-Vardibidian.