365 Days of Books

Free from The Book Thing of Baltimore. Into the Green by Charles de Lint. Most of the charles de Lint books I've read have mixed fairy/other world with modern day stories. Many of his female characters have been through abuse and neglect from their birth families but have forged new families. Into the Green is different. Although Angharad does find friends and family, this story is set farther back in time in a Celtic land where the "Green" is the world of often cursed gifts and magic. Angharad finds love and joy and wonder but loses the love and joy. She finds some relief by helping others with the "Green" in them to find peace in the good use of their gifts. An evil threatens the goodness and light of the Green and Angharad must find a way to stop the spread of darkness into the Green.