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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Worth Reading, July 4, 2005
I find myself striking a balance between wanting to say, "This is not one of de Lint's best works," and "This is a thoughtful and interesting to his novel Moonheart." I found the initial structure of the book to be a bit off-setting; the book is more like three interconnected novellas instead of a solid single novel. However, by the end of the book I was emotionally vested in the characters, to the point of blurting out, "She did WHAT?" in the laundromat in the final chapter. So while not as moving nor as fantastic as Moonheart, Spiritwalk is a thought-provoking collection on life, love, relationships with the divine, and relationships with people - including ourselves.
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14 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
An interesting new kind of fantasy, March 14, 1999
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Spiritwalk is a sequel to Moonheart. I accidently read this book before Moonheart, but I have since corrected that error. It makes much more sense when you know who the characters are ;) I think that de Lint's writing is decent, and his stories are good. They are a different kind of fantasy, pulling the otherworld into our world, an occurance that surprises the characters as much as the reader. They are perhaps gothic, having a dark tone to them, but good still triumphs over evil. Moonheart is definately a better book, but those who liked it would be interested in the stories in this one. Other reviewers have compared de Lint to Tolkien and CS Lewis, but I think they were misguided. The fantasy of Tolkien and Lewis is of a different brand. For one thing, they are Christian, and this is clearly reflected in the organization of their secondary worlds. De Lint's writing is based on a different, polytheistic tradition, and this also is apparent in his writing. [In Moonheart, it is mainly Celtic w/ some Native American, in Spiritwalk it focuses more on the Native American, and in later works such as Svaha, it is a blend of Native American and Eastern mysticism]. Not that you can't like all three of these authors [I do], but I do not think that they are similar enough to be compared. I appreciate each for his merits. I would consider de Lint to be modern in his themes, and his writing to be exclusively for teenagers and adults [NOT children!] My reason for this would most likely be sex scenes, which, while I'm on the topic, tend be described in rather ridiculous terms, but then, I am no fan of romance novels. These stories are an interesting rendition of ancient rituals of magic crossing into modern Canada.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Okay Reading, December 20, 2008
This was the third DeLint book that I read. The first was Moonheart which I absolutely loved. Then I read Jack of Kirowan, which I thought was pretty good too. Spiritwalk was the book that naturally followed. I bought this book in July and just finished reading it 5.5 months later. I read Moonheart in about 2 weeks. It was hard to get into Spiritwalk, but once I got into the stories I enjoyed them. I especially liked the last 100 pages of the 398 page book, which I read in a day because the end of that story sparked my interest that much. It was nice to revisit the characters from Moonheart in this book.
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