In which a missionary’s sister, desperate for news of him, follows him into the land of faerie where he’s been having trouble making converts. Queen Mab, changelings, malicious spirits, enormous land whales, creepy changing landscapes, and tons of epistolary research feature in this story of finding one’s way through lies, temptation, and illusion. Very atmospheric, very gothic, very much a wallow in guilt and manipulation; it was well done, but a little much for me. I liked the fairyland and the well-thought-out physics of its pendulum sun, but I didn’t much like the characters and couldn’t really get into their problems.
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