![]() The border is an invisible and magical barrier between suburban England and the world of elves, dwarves, mermaids and other magical races, with humans thrown into the mix for good measure. ![]() ![]() It isn’t just that Elliot is not the normal type of kid who finds their way to fantasyland it’s that Elliot himself is aware of this fact. All these changes make the story even stronger. For formal publication, the story has been lightly edited, with some parts condensed and others-particularly the final part of the book-expanded. The Turn of the Story began as a prequel to a short story that Brennan published in the anthology Monstrous Affections (2014), “Wings in the Morning.” That story was told from the perspective of teenage Border Guard cadet Luke Sunborn its events overlap with approximately the final ten percent of In Other Lands, which is told from the perspective of Luke’s partner, the obstreperous, sarcastic and determined Elliot Schafer. Sarah Rees Brennan’s new book In Other Lands, a rewrite and expansion of her online novel The Turn of the Story, feels like the next one. The category of “serial middle grade or young adult novel that was posted online for free but then gets traditionally published” is still rather small, but it’s produced at least one instant classic, Catherynne Valente’s The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (2011). ![]()
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