Bitter Seeds

mass market paperback, 416 pages

Published by Tor Fantasy, Brand: Tor Books.

ISBN:
978-0-7653-6120-2
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Review of 'Bitter Seeds' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

This book is creepy. It's a story about magic being used for war, and so in that sense it shares something with Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, but during World War II, and against the Nazis. And instead of negotiating terms with the intuitive Earth and with the wacky crazy Fairies, negotiation is done in terms of blood with beings that are all the more disturbing by being entirely sane and rational goal-seeking entities.

On the English side, there's Will and Marsh. On the German side, there's Klaus and Gretel. The Engishmen are clearly the good guys and the Germans are the monsters... or so it seems at the beginning, until it becomes apparent that all of them will kill for their own reasons. Klaus in particular is sympathetic to people that he really shouldn't be, while Gretel's odd precog behavior may be an indication that she is mad and …