Comments on: A Curse Dark As Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce

By: brina

brina — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:32:54 +0000

cuileann, I love your new word! “Creepeeriness” … Like creepy and eerie combined. If it’s all right with you, I’m going to steal it and use it myself.

Elizabeth, thanks so much for stopping by. And now I’ve got to go out and pick up Connie Willis’s book, because I can’t imagine a plague book better than Year of Wonders.

Liz, I did read to the end! Like I said, I felt as if I wouldn’t be able to breathe until I finished, and I even chided The Boyfriend for interrupting me when I had only fifty pages to go. And then again when I wrote the review immediately upon closing the book. I only say it’s in the running for the top five because we’ve not yet reached December, and one never knows what other lovely tales will reach us between now and then.

By: Liz Strand

Liz Strand — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:34:55 +0000

I have read reviews of A CURSE DARK AS GOLD and have come to the conclusion this book is far and away, not just a young adults book. There is so much depth and Ms Bunce has created a story one would never think was boring if they loved language as an art in and of itself.
Her writing just knocks me out! A treasure worth savoring, sentences to be remembered, beautiful descriptions of the landscape and the people.
I love books that take the writer a little deeper than they expected to go. This is one of those books.
Read it all the way through and you will have read one of the best books of this year, and by a writer I hope to see again in many other tales of romance and fantasy.

By: Elizabeth Bunce

Elizabeth Bunce — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:53:42 +0000

Well, I’m happy it found its way back to the top of your reading pile!

(And funny you should mention YEAR OF WONDERS; I was just today trying to decide if that or Connie Willis’s DOOMSDAY BOOK is the best novel ever about the plague…)

~ecb

By: cuileann

cuileann — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:39:18 +0000

Heartily agree; SUCH a good book. I had the good fortune to win a signed copy in a giveaway. Reading the last 150 pages or so late at night when no one else was around was the best…I don’t usually read fairytale retellings with so much delicious creepeeriness.