A review by nigellicus
Bracelet of Bones by Kevin Crossley-Holland

5.0

Solveig's father leaves her with her step-mother and step-brothers to rejoin his old leader Harald in Miklagard. Solveig sets out to follow him, an impossible journey across half the world. Crossley-Holland is one of the best story-tellers out there, with an instinctive appreciation for the role of myth and spirituality and poetry in everyday lives. Therefore the journey is vivid and fraught and wonderful, full of living, breathing characters and sudden, horrible dangers, hidden threats and tensions amidst joy and laughter and fellowship. Beautifully written and thoroughly alive, this is a gem of a book.