books 2005: Tamsin, by Peter S. Beagle

[supercheesegirl]

What a good book. Sometimes when I finish a good book I get really sad that it's over, but not with this one. I just feel all satisfied. Really excellent. I finished it in under 24 hours. (335 pages--take that, Taras Grescoe!) Good, good, good. I want to read it again right now to catch all the little things I know I missed the first time through. Peter Beagle's most well-known book is The Last Unicorn, which I read last year and liked a lot, but this was really kind of different from that. A ghost story, and a fantasy, and a love story, and just an all-around good book. I am very, very pleased.