While applying herself to this arduous sorting chore, however, Lisey is threatened by a strange man, the evil Zack McCool, aka John Dooley, who wants all Scott's unpublished papers. So after stealing her sister Amanda out of an asylum, she and Amanda whisk Dooley away to Boo'ya Moon, where the justice of that land is meted out by a creature that haunted Scott his entire life.
Boo’ya Moon could very well begin a new series of books, so complex and interesting a place this is. Moving behind the purple curtain and into the place where Long Boy lives and evil laughers make sunset dangerous. The place of the word pool, that pool which supplies poets and authors with the ways of expressing themselves - where we all go down to cast our nets and fish. Magically, mysteriously, it also heals both mentally and physically.
Though she spent most of her life lost behind her husband's fame, Lisey was the sort of person who holds the planet steady on it’s axis, so to speak. You share in the warmly candid relationship she has with her four sisters, Amanda, Darla, Cantina, and Jodotha, something that anyone with sisters will relate to.
I think you have to love Lisey. She is understated but to the point. Quietly sarcastic and wonderfully decent, dependable and unpretentious, she is the last person we think of when thinking heroism, yet in every respect she is.
I especially love when Lisey recalls a part of Scott's proposal to her. “I come to you and you see me whole,” Scott told Lisey when he proposed marriage in 1979. That moment is as alive for her when she remembers it as it was all those years back. “You love me all the way around the equator and not just for some story I wrote. When your door closes and the world’s outside, we’re eye to eye.” While that might not have been true when Scott said them, it surely was at the end of this novel.
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1 - Katie McNeill
I've got this one in my TBR pile but haven't found the time yet. I'm dying to get started on it now after reading your review! :)