![]() ![]() The details of the world of Near are likewise hints and tropes, and Schwab's use of present-tense, first-person narration heightens the sense of unreality, as though Lexi is less a fully realized person than a character the reader inhabits in a dream. Schwab puts more emphasis on mood than on plot her characters are types, intriguingly sketched but underdeveloped. When a stranger comes to the village of Near, and children begin vanishing from their beds, Lexi is determined to solve the mystery%E2%80%94the more so because she's certain that the stranger is not to blame. ![]() ![]() He'd like to see her dressed like a "proper" girl, responsive to the advances of Tyler Ward Lexi would rather buckle on her father's hunting knife and visit the witch sisters, Magda and Dreska Thorne. The narrative centers around a young woman who lives in a small town, trapped by the expectations of the men around her, but aching to follow in her late. The Near Witch is is an ancient story narrated to children to frighten them.In the town of Near, there are no strangers.In all her life, Lexi has heard that the wind is always lonely and looking for a company. ![]() Her father, who she thought held the secret, is dead, her mother is withdrawn, and her brutish uncle Otto is unsympathetic to Lexi's aspirations. Lexi Harris wants to be "of" the moor, but she's not sure how. Schwab's first book is more poetry than prose, concerned above all with the moor, the night, and the wind. ![]()
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