In the Cities of Coin and Spice

I missed something with this book. It's a continuation of In the Night Garden. It has the same wild form and the same amazing tales grounded in mythology and fairy tales. But I had a hard time remembering the characters from the stories as they progressed. If I read a lot in one night, I could get into it. But the next night, I forgot enough details that I was lost for a while. This didn't happen in Night Garden. I think this book was just too much of a good thing. Together the two volumes are well over 900 pages. That's a lot of interwoven storytelling. It's done masterfully, though, which is why this two-volume set really deserved its 2008 Mythopoeic Award.

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