In Other Lands is healing in multiple ways: we get to see Elliot, the main character, slowly heal from years of emotional abuse we see how he and his friends and allies start to bring a kind of healing to the cultures on the other side of the magical Wall and most of all, it’s healing for the reader. (As she does in a lot of her work, actually.) This wasn’t my first pick for the Healing stripe, but once it occurred to me, no other book could have the spot. It’s a ridiculous amount of fun, but it’s also wickedly clever and gives you a lot of food for thought, especially if you’re familiar with the classic fantasy tropes than Brennan flips upside-down and dissects here. In Other Lands is what you get when you take a snarky bisexual boy to magic school…and he’s not impressed.
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