by Diana Wynne Jones
Grade: Good
The worst of the three books of short stories I've read by her. They were all kind of gross. The villains were annoying instead of cool, or savage, or all-powerful, or anything interesting. Although I liked the four grannies as villains--but not the supergranny. It seemed to short a story to have something like that.
Still, it was Diana Wynne Jones, and that almost automatically earns it a "Good".
"RED is the most joyful and dreadful thing in the physical universe; it is the fiercest note, it is the highest light, it is the place where the walls of this world of ours wear thinnest and something beyond burns through. It glows in the blood which sustains and in the fire which destroys us, in the roses of our romance and in the awful cup of our religion. It stands for all passionate happiness, as in faith or in first love." -G. K. Chesterton
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