Book Review: Girl of Light by Elana Gomel

Sapha Burnell’s goodreads review of Elana Gomel’s Girl of Light

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Girl of Light by Elana Gomel
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

As chilling as a deep unending winter. A mind-warp on the monstrosity of belief taken too far, wrapped around a war story told in a young woman's voice.
As powerful as the bullets fired from a nagant.
Girl of Light features the teenaged Svetlana, a studious girl who dreams of becoming a battlefield nurse to aide in MotherLand's war against Wulfstan. She trusts the Voice, a strange series of sounds which emanate from MotherLand's mirrors, and dictates what to do about the monsters which everyone needs to watch out for. All evil becomes known, as the rot inside a person's soul transforms them into oboroten, or other monstrous forms. They weren't pure enough, they weren't light enough.
This novel is the epitome of horror and fantasy, a dark look into fanaticism and belief. Elana creates powerful and human characters, who claw and fight both with the monsters in MotherLand, and the impending onslaught of Wulfstan's nefarious march.
This will be a classic.

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