xypage reviewed North Woods by Daniel Mason
An Incredible Anthology
5 stars
Might be my new favorite book. It takes you through story after story, seemingly only related by the cabin that plays some part in each one, but themes persist, and it finds ways to constantly tie events from before in, mysteries to the current chapter that you alone know the answers to as the observer of it all. Every chapter has you wanting nothing more than to read through to its end to see where this part will leave off, what it adds that future parts might pick back up. Then once you finish a chapter you're once again left just wanting to read more because you know you're going to be introduced to a new perspective and with how much they vary both in content and style I found myself constantly curious how it would change. In the end there wasn't a single point at which I wanted to …
Might be my new favorite book. It takes you through story after story, seemingly only related by the cabin that plays some part in each one, but themes persist, and it finds ways to constantly tie events from before in, mysteries to the current chapter that you alone know the answers to as the observer of it all. Every chapter has you wanting nothing more than to read through to its end to see where this part will leave off, what it adds that future parts might pick back up. Then once you finish a chapter you're once again left just wanting to read more because you know you're going to be introduced to a new perspective and with how much they vary both in content and style I found myself constantly curious how it would change. In the end there wasn't a single point at which I wanted to put it down, I read through to the very end enthralled the entire time, and was very impressed with how it managed to wrap it all together in a satisfying and succinct way in the end despite all the disparate elements that were involved.
