Deep, Compassionate 'Tess Of The Road' Contains A Whole World
Rachel Hartman follows up Seraphina and Shadow Scale with the story of Tess, a rebellious young woman who runs away to escape being sent to a nunnery, and finds pain and growth along her road.
I've been wary of for some time. The ad copy —"You fell in love with Seraphina. Now meet Tess."— made me grumpy. I did, in fact, , the protagonist of and two of the most beautiful fantasy novels I've ever read; I resented the implication that I'd therefore love Seraphina's sister Tess. I loved the world in which both lived, certainly, but I also know how companion books usually
