The Needle in the Blood
Eve's Alexandria's exhaustive review of "The Needle in the Blood" find the book "mind-bogglingly good."
It is what Sarah Bowers does with this material, perfectly mundane in itself, that raises the piece from a romance to literary historical novel. Her narratorial style is initially disconcerting - a kind of omniscient third-person in the present tense, reminiscent of children's books - but is quickly reconciled and her prose is honestly quite startling.
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The novel is like this through and through. Languid and deliberate in its telling, vivid and tangible in its world-building. Characters are similarly well-made, composite pieces and shown rather than told.
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