· REVIEW: Lent by Jo Walton. Lent is a chimera of a novel, a combination of historical fiction and fantasy with bits of religious and philosophical arguments peppered throughout a thoroughly interesting Groundhog’s Day-esque story. Jo Walton juggles each of these pieces almost expertly, wrapping them in a wonderfully evocative novel with sparse, well-written, and even beautiful prose. · Lent by Jo Walton. Tor Books, , pp. Girolamo Savonarola, martyr or heretic, burns. As Jo Walton writes of her real-life Dominican friar protagonist, “He has always burned, as long as he can remember.”. Ambition dogs his steps, seeps into his faith: “He burned then for more purity, more severity, more preaching, more rigor. · Lent, her latest novel, is in many respects an extension of several of the thematic arguments (and historical interests) already seen in that Plato’s Republic trilogy, albeit Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.
Jo Walton. view profile | RSS feed. Fiction and Excerpts [15] All. Fiction and Excerpts [15] Read the First Chapter of Jo Walton's Lent. Jo Walton. Tue pm. 2 Favorites [+]. That also makes it difficult to talk about what Walton is doing in this novel, and to some extent even to describe its genre. I'll try, but the result will be unsatisfyingly vague. Lent is set in an alternate historical universe in which both theology and magic work roughly the way that 15th century Christianity thought that they worked. Demons. Linus himself is a lovable protagonist despite his prickliness, and Klune aptly handles his evolving feelings and morals. The prose is a touch wooden in places, but fans of quirky fantasy will eat it up. A breezy and fun contemporary fantasy. 5. Pub Date: Ma. ISBN: Page Count:
Review: Lent by Jo Walton Posted on March 6, March 5, by Taking One Step at a Time For the first (almost) half of the book, this is a slightly fantastical biography of the Dominican monk Girolamo Savonarola from to , including the Bonfire of Vanities. Lent is available from Tor Books. Read an excerpt from the novel, or discover Jo Walton’s inspiration for the story. Liz Bourke is a cranky queer person who reads books. She holds a Ph.D in. From Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning Jo Walton comes Lent, a magical re-imagining of the man who remade fifteenth-century Florence―in all its astonishing strangeness. Young Girolamo's life is a series of miracles. It's a miracle that he can see demons, plain as day, and that he can cast them out with the force of his will.
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