I bought this book because it took place in New Brunswick, and the word ‘gothic’ was used in its description. I guess I’m glad I read this story about a girl and her bear “brother” and their lives in a logging camp, but I did find it to be somewhat slow. I never did bother to look up some of the very technical logging vocabulary that the author used, and her descriptions, though evocative, were sometimes unclear to me. There were, of course, cruelty and sorrow in the book, but love as well. Logging was a very hard life indeed.
And I must say, there was less of the gothic than I had hoped for. I guess it resided in the tall tales/myths of creatures living in the forest.
