All the Windwracked Stars

Elizabeth Bear has some of the most lyrical writing I have ever read, simply beautiful, and it puts you right into the scene... you can feel the snow, or the heat of the steed. I love a book that can simply transport me into a sense of place.

A take from the Norse pantheon, Muire is the lone surviving Valkyrie, doomed to immortality. But can she simply live out her days and watch the world end? WIll she have to do something to try and save it? I found her indecision very humane.

She finds another Child of Light still alive, and determined to have the world end. But when Muire starts 'recognizing' her fellow Valkyries souls in some of the people around her... she feels compelled to drop the shields she has built around her, and once more become involved in the world.