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I enjoyed it overall but I did not expect it to be practically half mafia story, half deep woodland story as the book cover and info on the back does not hint at the mafia involvement whatsoever. If I had picked the book up in a shop I may have read the first couple of pages and been put off by the beginning mafia scenes and not purchased it so I am glad I bought it offline and was not put off when I persevered with it thinking it was probably just setting a scene and the woodland scenes would soon occur, which is portrayed by the beautiful cover (which thankfully happens) . That said it worked well and it even got my pulse racing in some scenes, I came to enjoy the mafia scenes. The chapters involving Ali and Mally were the highlights for me as was any mention of what they call in this book greenmantle, also know as the greenman/cernunnos/pan etc. :)

Some lines I remember from the book I enjoyed reading are:

鈥楢ll roads lead to the same end. So it鈥檚 not so much which road you take, as how you take it.鈥�
鈥楽ome things can鈥檛 be explained, some shouldn鈥檛 be and some lose their heart when they are.鈥�
鈥業t wasn鈥檛 the magic of the mystery that was important or the finding of it, but the quest itself.鈥�
鈥楬e has always been a reflection of what one brings to him.鈥�
鈥業t鈥檚 important to know what a person was, but it鈥檚 more important to know what they are now.鈥�
鈥楾alking is not everything Ali, sometimes just being together is enough.鈥�

鈥淭hank God, you鈥檙e okay,鈥� she murmured into Ali鈥檚 ear.
鈥淟et鈥檚 thank ourselves,鈥� Ali said. 鈥淲e鈥檙e the ones that did it.鈥�

AND I need to make a cloak like this one, it sounds lovely: 鈥楽he could see that the cloak now appeared to be made of hundreds of pieces of cloth in the shapes of leaves, all sewn together.鈥�

I would like to read some more stories by Charles De Lint in the future